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Media Helping Media<p>Avoid clichés, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalese</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jargon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jargon</span></a> when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/story" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>story</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a>. Free lesson plan for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trainers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trainers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teaching</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/student" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>student</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a>. Please adapt for your own purposes. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/print" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>print</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/television" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>television</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/online" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>online</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/social" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>social</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mediahelpingmedia.org/lessons/lesson-cliches-journalese-and-jargon/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediahelpingmedia.org/lessons/</span><span class="invisible">lesson-cliches-journalese-and-jargon/</span></a></p>
Phillip de Wet<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Grammarly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grammarly</span></a> false positives can be pretty useful for overall language awareness.</p><p>No, I'm not going to change the phrase "is in hospital again" to include "a" or "the". But thanks for the reminder that it is <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/journalese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalese</span></a>, that normal people don't talk like that.</p>
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