Practice Day 19

mainstream media

give someone a dressing-down

seethe with anger

jeremiad against

iniquities

strident voices

helping them distinguish fact from fiction

The business models of newspapers depend on the idea that they offer something trustworthy.

Healthy distrust can be a good thing but hardened cynicism is paralyzing. 

tabloid

hostility

elision ( pronunciation)

synecdoche ( pronunciation )

We have seen trust in media ebb and flow over many years

public revulsion

discontent with media

coalesce

vitriolic

adversarial relationship

aftermath

corrosive effect

straw poll – Economic and political truth is not discovered by a straw poll

national media outlets

foreseeable future

tenacious

ramifications

family wherewithal

a vested interest

stringent

conform to

agitate against

vociferous

lurid 

flimsy evidence

a paragon

apparatchik

a plethora of 

bete noire – betes noires

innuendo

gave the story credence

a provocative story

evasion

callousness

denunciation

inconceivable

debunked

amiable

impetus

unsubstantiated rumours

cacophony

complacent

deferential

obeisant

deplore

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