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mediaspeak

mediaspeak noun: the jargon used by the mass media.

Noun

mediaspeak (uncountable)

  1. The jargon used by the mass media.
    • Mainly White Noise and Libra are full of mediaspeak from television, radio and the tabloids.2007, Jan Riepe, The Future Belongs To Crowds, page 72
    • Unlike Ginsberg's use of omnipresent mediaspeak to critique the abstractions of the war, Balaban employs less accessible texts in “The Gardenia in the Moon.”2007, Philip Metres, Behind the lines, page 117

Origin of mediaspeak

From media + -speak.

Questions about mediaspeak

What does mediaspeak mean?
Mediaspeak means the jargon used by the mass media.
What part of speech is mediaspeak?
Mediaspeak is a noun.

Words near mediaspeak in the dictionary

  1. mediary
  2. medias
  3. mediasation
  4. mediascape
  5. mediascapes
  6. mediaspeak
  7. mediasphere
  8. mediaspheres
  9. mediasteroside
  10. mediastina
  11. mediastinal

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