Please Make It Stop: Why does the Media insist on killing us with cliches?
I swear, it has become almost PAINFUL now whenever a news anchor or reporter on location looks into the camera and says:
...in a flash
...when tragedy struck
...clear as a bell
...with guns blazing
...in a wink
...in harm's way
...the long arm of the law
*SIGH* *depressed*
Yes, yes, I know that the news is all about being as short and concise as possible in order to stay within viewers' attention spans. Still, this has begun to physically HURT. They don't even mix it up anymore, or attempt to spread them out. It's just boom--boom--BOOM. One after the other, kicking me in the brain like a mule I pissed off.
I couldn't get away with it, for sure. My fiction focus critique-mates would send me and my story manuscript home with my feelings hurt, and with a quickness.
Okay. I'm finished whining now.
...in a flash
...when tragedy struck
...clear as a bell
...with guns blazing
...in a wink
...in harm's way
...the long arm of the law
*SIGH* *depressed*
Yes, yes, I know that the news is all about being as short and concise as possible in order to stay within viewers' attention spans. Still, this has begun to physically HURT. They don't even mix it up anymore, or attempt to spread them out. It's just boom--boom--BOOM. One after the other, kicking me in the brain like a mule I pissed off.
I couldn't get away with it, for sure. My fiction focus critique-mates would send me and my story manuscript home with my feelings hurt, and with a quickness.
Okay. I'm finished whining now.