POPULAR (ANNOYING) EXPRESSIONS

Here's a comment on journalese.

"Some Popular Expressions that can be heard and read about in the media...; The General consensus is ...Why not just the consensus is ... Isn't the consensus general anyway?

"A Lone gun man...Why not just say a gun man. And if a woman pulls the trigger would she be described as a gun woman?

"A gun man alighted from a vehicle...how does a reporter know that? And why the term alighted?; He was wielding a gun/cutlass.

"Reports are...?; Most popular in crime stories, especially over at CNC3 in Samuel Mc Knight's crime stories.

"Now you can't be too creative with crime stories, but if we tax the brain a bit surely these stories don't have to sound so tired and same.

"Tired and overused Expressions - Emotions ran high; Tensions heightened; Debate in the Parliament today became heated; More heads would roll; Residents staged a fiery/heated protest; Starting of a packaged protest story by saying X, Y, or Z protested today over...; And the ever popular he says, he says, he says or Mr./Ms so and so after every sound bite in a package, now that really comes across like a poorly written news paper article/story loaded with quotations.

"Sandra"