The language of journalism

by Melvin J. Lasky

"The language of journalism is examined, its spelendors and miseries - including cliches and trivia, sensationalism and prurience, wit and witlessness, fiction and faction, pseudery and jabberwocky, scoops and hoaxes, racism and sexism, profanity and obsenity, virtue and reality, culture and anarchy - and the abuse of slang, style, and the habits of writing good prose."