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Author:   Robert Hutton
Publisher:   Elliott & Thompson Limited
Imprint:   Elliott & Thompson Limited
Edition:   Annotated edition
ISBN:  

9781909653443

ISBN 10:   1909653446
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   19 September 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents; Introduction 1; What is this book? 2; What is journalese? 7; The Journalese List; General 19; A question of attribution 45; Anatomy of a scandal 50; Banned 52; Foreign correspondent 54; Police story 58; Everyone's a critic 65; The Devil reads Grazia 70; How we used to live 73; In the bedroom 78; Journalese fear scale 82; 24-hour party people 84; Journalese row scale 94; Property ladder 96; Lifestyles of the rich and famous 99; This sporting life 105; The numbers game 113; Things newspaper readers should know 117; Terms of the trade 122; Journalistic slang 126; Acknowledgements 129; About the author 135

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great joy from Robert Hutton's Romps, Tots and Boffins. Never has the weird language of headlines been so wittily defined. --Libby Purves, 'books of the year', The Times; Robert Hutton...has set himself up as the Dr Johnson of this strange, widely read, hardly spoken, language. --Matthew Engel, Financial Times; I'm loving a little book just out by my fellow political journalist Rob Hutton. It's called Romps, Tots and Boffins: The Strange Language of News but is so much more than a hilarious compendium of the ghastly cliche to which our trade is prone. --Matthew Parris, The Times; An essential guide to finding out what you are reading about. Some people may dismiss this as a 'loo book' but, actually, it's so much more. --Ann Treneman, The Times

Author Information

Robert Hutton has been UK political correspondent for Bloomberg since 2004; previously, he worked at the Mirror and Financial Times. Having read Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at Edinburgh University, he is believed to be the only member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery to have built a rugby-playing robot. Arguably his most notable contribution to journalism has been the introduction of the 'news sandwich' to the political lexicon. He lives in south east London with his wife and sons.

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