journalism

04 Aug: How to be a journalist in one easy lesson

Learn journalism the easy way

You can save yourself three years of politically correct, left-wing indoctrination at journalism school by just following the simple steps below.

Marxist Martin HirstLearn the following vocabulary with its emphasis on hard-hitting negative verbs:
(All of the following are regularly used in media reports. See how many you can spot next time you read a newspaper or watch the TV news.)

 Sparked (the most important word in a journalist’s vocabulary), as in “sparked anger”, “sparked uproar”, “sparked outrage”, “sparked a war of words”;

 rolled, as in “Caucus rolled the Prime Minister”, or  “The Minister was rolled on  the  issue“. Political leaders never change their minds or review their decisions, they “back flip” or they are “rolled”;

caved-in; back flip; exposed; blamed; threatened; warned; sent shock waves; shattered; pummelled; taken a hit; rolled over; attacked; intimidated; undermined; killed; spinning dangerously out of control; the death toll from a tragic ….….,