New York Times Creates ‘Kerfuffle’ with List of Journalese

New York Times: “Our previous post on ‘journalese’ stirred up a lot of commentary on Twitter, so I decided to ‘circle back’ (sorry) with some examples I neglected the first time around. As noted earlier, journalese refers to a strained and artificial voice more common to news reports than to natural conversation. Writing in the Times should aim to be free of such banalities.”