mediaspeak

mediaspeak

English

Etymology

media +‎ -speak

Noun

mediaspeak (uncountable)

1. The jargon used by the media.
   • 2007, Jan Riepe, The Future Belongs To Crowds (page 72)

     Mainly White Noise and Libra are full of mediaspeak from television, radio and the tabloids.

   • 2007, Philip Metres, Behind the lines (page 117)

     Unlike Ginsberg's use of omnipresent mediaspeak to critique the abstractions of the war, Balaban employs less accessible texts in “The Gardenia in the Moon.”