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Friday, July 01, 2005

Journalistic PC... or Pc

Has anyone else noticed how the media is moving more and more to a sort of print-minimalism? I’m not sure why this trend has taken hold but it basically takes acronyms like NASA and AFLAC and reduces them to Nasa and Aflac. I think there is some kind of journalistic Pc (political correctness) going on that is essentially taking these acronyms and turning them into words. Well, words they are not, sorry. NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration and AFLAC means American Family Life Assurance Company.

The more disturbing possibilities looming on the horizon include making USA into Usa or just US into just Us. How about the CIA and FBI into the Cia and Fbi?

I have to wonder if there isn’t some adolescent 13 year-old making the rules in the media these days anyway, so this just reinforces the feeling that they’ve lost a portion of their playing deck.

Here are some more potential victims: VW into Vw. GMC into Gmc, which makes your truck a little less impressive, no? ASAP becomes Asap and not nearly as soon as before. COD slides easily into Cod… having a fish delivered, postage due? And speaking of delivery, what about UPS slimming down to Ups? (Sounds too much like ‘oops’ to me!)

Oh, and then there are POTUS and SCOTUS. We all know what they mean, right? They evolve into Potus and Scotus… almost like a mess of obscene body parts that can be boiled down into a toxic potion and then plied upon some unsuspecting Disney character…

Witch (whispering in a witchy voice): "I will take a pinch Potus and 1/3 cup of Scotus to poison the apple before I give it to that goody two-shoes, Snow White, and those seven horrid little perverts!"

Talk about slippery slopes!