“News You’ll Use?” Or, Useless News? Let’s make one thing clear: unless you’re my doctor calling with test results, there’s NOTHING that “I Need to Know, RIGHT NOW!!” 🙂 Which is why I sure hope the mainstream media cools it when it comes to increasingly ubiquitous ads insistently telling viewers “what they need to [see/do/read]” ....Read More
No, Actually, It’s Usually Not (& You’re Misusing the Word) In the interests of stamping out an annoying new phrase before it takes hold any more widely, here’s my 2 cents on the proliferating use of the phrase “It’s Genius!” to confer a compliment. First of all, you’re contorting into an adjective what is meant...Read More
