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This is not about Doug Ford

6/6/2018

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This is about the news media's descent into corporate Newspeak.

​It's about a once-dignified news outlet that is reporting on Ontario Provincial PC candidate Doug Ford's alleged manipulation of his dead brother's will - and I quote:


"The Star reached out to Doug Ford Tuesday asking if he could answer the specific allegation ..."

Forget that there should be an "ON" after "FORD". If there was any proof that the news media have been terminally corporatized, the phrase "reached out" has got to be it. It may seem authentic and even impressive to some people, but to me it reeks of affectation and makes me doubt everything said thereafter.

Why couldn't the Star have simply said "The Star asked Doug Ford on Tuesday if he could answer the specific allegation"?

Is this the beginning of 1984 where workers are provided with certain words and terms to use so that they become complicit in masking the robotic reality of their own situation?

If Ontario elects Doug Ford as its premier then all the smart people have clearly moved away, and only the Trump-type-lovers remain. No couth; no scruples; just money he didn't create and an ego to match his girth.

But The Star turns out to be even ickier than Ford or Trump. Apart from the timing of the article to do what Russia was accused of - that is, attempt to influence an election - it comes across as eerily robotic in its speech. Maybe Alexa wrote that article?

As I've complained repeatedly before, the corporatized media and our media-fed schools are destroying our spoken, written language through bad grammar and buzz terms. Original meanings are gradually being lost or co-opted  in an increasing use of Newspeak.

Here's a list of Orwell's Newspeak words. See if you don't find eerily similar qualities creeping into what now passes for English.

Fortunately, there are other entities who are as put off by all the "reaching out" as I am.

FastCompany: 5 Phrases You Should Never Use In An Email -- If you want to sound like an intelligent person rather than a cliché-spouting robot ...

Johnsmurf.com: ...we can blame those old AT&T ads that encouraged folks to "reach out and touch someone."

TheDailyTelegraph: in the seemingly never ending litany of stupid business phrases with little or no actual meaning, now comes what I believe could be the most irritating of all — “reaching out’’.

There are alternatives offered, but good lord, you don't have to use alternatives! Isn't it obvious that "I'm writing to you"?  Or that "I'm contacting you"? Can't we just get to the point and say, "I'm hoping you can provide answers to the following questions"?

The first time I was treated to the "reaching out" ruse was in an email conversation with a man in the Executive Office of the TD Bank, and I knew immediately that he was a prime example of the Peter Principle. He assured me that he had "reached out" to his technical team and that I should rest assured that the glitches in some online features of my bank account would soon be resolved.

I could actually see him in my mind -- the vacant eyes; the drooping shoulders; the wince when he'd see my name in the list of emails. Still, for months I persisted in the hope that my online account would again be fully functional because Mr. Peter Principle was "reaching out" on my behalf.

And you might not think it but I was polite and dignified in my queries. Too polite, perhaps, because one question never answered was this: "Has the bank been hacked?"  It was as if I'd never asked. Needless to say, I am no longer a TD customer.

There are all sorts of over-used buzzwords nowadays to beguile the public into accepting (and paying more for) "innovations". One that grates on me almost as much as "reaching out" is "excited". "We're so excited and you will be too."

There must be something wrong with me, because all I do is gag slightly and then wonder if these companies are "manned" by high school cheerleaders.

Just Google this: "we're so excited about our new product" if you want to see how google-eyed the whole business world has become.

Here's a list of 50 alternatives to the word "excited". "Happy" didn't make the list; too dignified I suspect. And not nearly bug-eyed enough.

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5 Comments
Penny link
6/6/2018 05:55:11 pm

Hey YaYa: I thought the timing of the lawsuit was interesting... so close to the election date?

The use of the term "reached out" is interesting, when the Star should have said they asked him..
So why did the Star used "reached out"
We're they trying to create an impression in the mind of the reader of concern..
I'm with you YaYaC- it's an annoying term!
As for the election- I'm declining my ballot tomorrow

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YayaCanada
6/6/2018 07:31:26 pm

Thanks for commenting, Penny. The election is a mess. I haven't received a voter card yet. Canada Post "delayed it", for some unexplained non-reason. So I used my postal code to look it up on the handy-dandy election information site and it said I have go way out the other end of town to vote, which I refuse to do. Drat! I was hoping to use my decline option, but not like this!

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Penny link
7/6/2018 06:36:35 pm

Ballot declined- Of course I got the 'oh my you have three heads and six eyes look' Whaat. Why.

I asked that my ballot be marked as declined and that it be counted as declined
It was marked as such in my presence

I explained that none of the three parties offered anything of real substance in my opinion.

And I left.

I overheard some woman say "was she not allowed to vote?" I kept walking but thought to myself, surely, you'll hear soon enough that I opted to decline due toa lack of real choice. Even if it's whispered amongst the workers lest others realize this is a viable option in Ontario.

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YayaCanada
7/6/2018 07:32:31 pm

I've been waiting to hear from you Penny. Tomorrow I'd like to post my own experience, along with yours, and that of another friend.

If you have time, could you answer some questions for me?
Did you notice if ballot boxes were being used? My friend was surprised to see his ballot being run through a machine.

And they ran the Voter Card through another machine. Did that happen with yours?

Did they put your declined ballot into a special envelope for that purpose?

You were very brave to put yourself on the line like that, with people watching and muttering about it.

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Penny link
7/6/2018 08:38:25 pm

I didn't see ballot boxes, but, did notice they were using the scanner type machines- That was a first for my riding to my knowledge. Definitely a first at my polling station which has been the same polling station for numerous elections (provincial)

Municipal election polling is generally done elsewhere.

My declined ballot was set aside and a tally sheet was marked noting the declined ballot- it will have to be hand counted as it was not machine scanned.
Declined ballots have to be counted-

I will check my local polling counts tomorrow to see the totals...

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