{"id":6305,"date":"2014-02-27T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T23:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6305"},"modified":"2014-02-27T16:48:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T23:48:40","slug":"journalistic-cliches-and-their-academic-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6305","title":{"rendered":"Journalistic Cliches and Their Academic Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My least-favorite journalistic cliche is &#8220;time will tell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite the president&#8217;s charm offensive, some pundits say that the world will end next Tuesday. Time will tell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/opinions\/wp\/2014\/02\/27\/the-outlook-list-of-things-we-do-not-say\/\">Read the whole list of 150 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a journal editor, I could make my own list, particularly those stupid bits of wordiness that get between the reader and an actual <em>thesis statement<\/em>, in which the writer actually takes a position on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Some sample candidates:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I plan to explore the intersection between . . .<\/p>\n<p>In this paper I will argue\u00a0 . . .<\/p>\n<p>This article compares . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get out of the spotlight, academic writer, and <em>say something about something.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My least-favorite journalistic cliche is &#8220;time will tell.&#8221; Despite the president&#8217;s charm offensive, some pundits say that the world will end next Tuesday. Time will tell. Read the whole list of 150 here. As a journal editor, I could make my own list, particularly those stupid bits of wordiness that get between the reader and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,12],"class_list":["post-6305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1DH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":372,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=372","url_meta":{"origin":6305,"position":0},"title":"Feuilletons I had never encountered\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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Two of the grandmothers are less concerned, lying down in the grass in their shawls as their grandsons collect wood for the fire. \u201cIn [Orthodox] Church, you have to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":104,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=104","url_meta":{"origin":6305,"position":2},"title":"The Rosvellov Incident","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 27, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Now the story can be told . . . in Pravda, apparently taking its journalistic lead from the supermarket tabloids, which, as we all know, are staffed Florida-loving expatriate British journalists fired from their UK jobs for excessive-even-by-Fleet-Street-standards drunkeness: In the beginning of August 1987 five soldiers of Leningrad Military\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Russia\"","block_context":{"text":"Russia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=russia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7539,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7539","url_meta":{"origin":6305,"position":3},"title":"It&#8217;s Late October \u2014 Who Can Keep Up with the News?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There is more Pagan-related stuff popping up in the news and publishing world than usual right now. I wonder why. So here are some highlights: \u2022 Gwendolyn Reece is a university librarian, blogger (Diary of an Occult Librarian), and scholar \u2014 one recent publication, \"Impediments to Practice in Contemporary Paganism,\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Europe\"","block_context":{"text":"Europe","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=europe"},"img":{"alt_text":"psst it's halloween","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/psst-its-halloween-205x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3818,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3818","url_meta":{"origin":6305,"position":4},"title":"When Is a Monk not a Monk?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"When he or she is a student at the University of Pennsylvania. Given that this is a religious-studies class (academic, not doctrinal) at a secular university,\u00a0 I thought that the professor had an interesting idea. 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