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#MediaCarcass: is that the right hashtag? Any other suggestions?

Posted by Nicholas Gruen on Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Well folks, that’s how your mad as hell correspondent feels.  I’m refining the #HeSaidSheSaid campaign. After posting it I realised that we really needed a more general term as the pathologies of modern media – what Tim Watts calls souffle journalism – comprehend quite a few moves, not all of which fit properly within the HSSS description, and, as my last post on the subject illustrates, sometimes bring on something resembling the opposite of HSSS which is comment dressed up as news. Thus a story tells us that Tony Abbott saying that Julia seems to be saying that “‘no’ doesn’t mean ‘no’” is a gaffe.  (I thought it was both funny and legitimate.)

So in the last post I mooted the idea of a new hashtag trying to encompass all that we hate about the kinds of stories I’m talking about.

Anyway, reflecting my despair at the state of our media, and since I’d just spoken of “the carcass called media values” I proposed ‘#MediaCarcass’, which on reflection I think is rather good. Tim Watts has subsequently suggested:

#FailureOfthePress

#UReportWeDecide

#UrKillingDemocracy

#SouffléJournalism

Anyway folks.  It’s now up to you – tell us what you think. “Have your say” as they say on Govt and MSM websites and/or come up with something better.  I’m off to tweet this.  If you have a twitter account please retweet, and we’ll see how we go. I’ll nominate a new hashtag tomorrow by COB.



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12 Responses to “#MediaCarcass: is that the right hashtag? Any other suggestions?”

  1. Leinad said:

    duh:

    #mediafail

    Posted on 04-Aug-10 at 6:25 pm | Permalink
  2. Jacques Chester said:

    Nitpick: Carcass.

    Posted on 05-Aug-10 at 2:34 pm | Permalink
  3. Nicholas Gruen said:

    Yes, good point. Fixed.

    Posted on 05-Aug-10 at 3:02 pm | Permalink
  4. James said:

    I misread #MediaCarcase as #MediaCarcArse, which has the added implication of their reporting being shit. That may be overloading too many concepts into the hashtag though.

    Posted on 05-Aug-10 at 3:14 pm | Permalink
  5. phil@vvb said:

    #notthenews

    Posted on 05-Aug-10 at 6:38 pm | Permalink
  6. FDB said:

    Nitpicknitpick: carcase.

    Go back to Mexamericanada, Chester.

    Posted on 06-Aug-10 at 2:24 pm | Permalink
  7. Jacques Chester said:

    Nitpicknitpicknitpick: Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary lists it as “Carcass, also Carcase”.

    Posted on 06-Aug-10 at 2:36 pm | Permalink
  8. paul walter said:

    Jacques, nit pick!
    You left”bloated”out of you sentence including “carcass”. Carcasses are always(eventually) “bloated”.
    Or am I just thinking of Piers Ackermann and Laurie Hoax?

    Posted on 07-Aug-10 at 4:54 am | Permalink
  9. H&R said:

    #Themortgagedestate
    #Prepaidparliament

    Posted on 07-Aug-10 at 6:40 pm | Permalink
  10. H&R said:

    Or possibly:

    #Thetrevorchappellshow

    Posted on 07-Aug-10 at 6:42 pm | Permalink
  11. Camo said:

    So we’re commenting on a pice of commentary by someone who hates commentary in place of journalism?

    Obviously then:
    #commentment

    Posted on 09-Aug-10 at 8:58 pm | Permalink
  12. Camo said:

    ..or
    #commentmentary

    Posted on 09-Aug-10 at 8:59 pm | Permalink

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