Forthycause's List: Transcripts

• accomplished journalist
• took to the pages
• backed off

  • If you back off from a claim, demand, or commitment that you made earlier, or if you back off it, you withdraw it.
    A spokesman says the president has backed off from his threat to boycott the conference...
    The union has publicly backed off that demand.
• snatched it up
• held up to fact checking
• That's something that's come up today
• has more ambivalent feelings
• the day before he came out in this article
• with phony documents
• full disclosure
• recused himself from covering that topic

  • 사퇴하다. 기피하다. 거부하다
• it's a very slippery slope

  • 파멸에 이르는 길
• compartmentalize his immigration status
• shifty

  • Someone who looks shifty gives the impression of being dishonest. (INFORMAL)
    He had a shifty face and previous convictions.
• fabulously talented journalist
• make a journalist’s nose itch
• with this sort of big secret hanging over him.
• disqualified himself from being a journalist
• at a minimum

  • You use at a minimum, or at the minimum, when you want to indicate that something is the very least which could or should happen.
    This would take three months at a minimum...
    ≠ at the maximum
• issues come up
• egregious sin

  • Egregious means very bad indeed. (FORMAL)
    ...the most egregious abuses of human rights.
    = grievous
• bring up any of those issues
• I was torn between being irritated
• bring himself over

  • 개종시키다;데려오다;제편으로 끌어들이다;넘겨주다
• try and earn his way into citizenship
• keep an open mind about
• gave him a byline

  • (철도의)평행선, (신문, 잡지의)필자명을 적은줄, 부업, 내직(sideline)
• come under fire
• kept it to himself

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• This week bells and whistles as the media slot machine when triple 7's, spilling forth the glittering coin of sex, murder and sleaze, the latter contributed by certain news outlets that will not go nameless
• accused child killer Casey Anthony is acquitted, sparking outrage in the public and punditocracy.
• sordid and transgressive
• the whole of the United Kingdom is in an uproar
• sleazy

  • dirty, cheap or not socially acceptable, especially relating to moral or sexual matters:
    This part of town is full of sleazy bars and restaurants.
• peacetime act of terrorism
• eavesdropped

  • 엿듣다, 도청하다 《on》(⇒ overhear [유의어])
    ━ n. =EAVESDRIP
• The gruesome details about
• giving the family false hopes and hampering the police investigation, proved to be the boiling point for this long-simmering scandal.
• muckracker

  • muckraker - American journalists and novelists of the first decade of the twentieth century who exposed corruption in big business and government.
• plowed a lonely furrow
• And it began to reach the point where advertisers was saying, okay, we're gonna pull our ads.
• they were ringing up the newspaper and abusing the journalists
• This had become a giant shockwave
• have taken this dramatic action by closing the newspaper
• spun it as taking the high road
• shut down the discredited newspaper
• There is a lot at stake for News Corp
• gravitas

  • If you say that someone has gravitas, you mean that you respect them because they seem serious and intelligent. (FORMAL)
    He is pale, dark, and authoritative, with the gravitas you might expect of a Booker prize winner
• sleazy

  • <행실 등이> 너저분한, 타락한
    
    2 <집이> 초라한; 값싼, 보잘것없는
    ▶ a sleazy hotel 누추한 호텔
    
    3 <천이> 얄팍한(flimsy)
• squalid

  • adjective DISAPPROVING
    (of places) extremely dirty and unpleasant, often because of lack of money:
    Many prisons, even today, are overcrowded and squalid places.
• most intimate details of their sex lives
• it has done that against the background of ever-falling sales
• the paper was selling 8.4 million copies an issue
• the News of the World’s style of journalism was already on the back foot
• cozy up to
• The really odd thing about this is that
• paid court to him
• taken him very seriously,
• the worm has turned
• feeding frenzy
• we are very on the verge of
• stretching my mind back into history
• who seem to have given it a new lease of life.

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• diverge so sharply from
• logged a lot of time
• that are just enthralling to the American public right now.
• made its bones on this story
• watching it from a distance
• where there's smoke, there must be fire.
• bumbling
• As opposed to
• drawn comparisons between
• watching to a new planet.

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• dangled out in front of the cameras that senior citizens may not
• with a combination of
• WMD leading up to the Iraq War
• whiplash

  • Whiplash is a neck injury caused by the head suddenly moving forwards and then back again, for example in a car accident.His wife suffered whiplash and shock...
• “On the one hand, on the other hand” type of reporting

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• during the scuffle

  •  A short, confused fight or struggle at close quarters
• establishes relatively broad latitude
• earned very little national attention
• by all accounts
• the flags started going up
• a dearth of

  • A scarcity or lack of something
• garden variety killing
• outweighed him by a hundred pounds
• hop on this

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• over the top

  • (idiomatic) Bold; beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; outrageous.
    He has always had an independent style, but don't you think purple spiky hair is a bit over the top?
• sugar, more than any other substance, is to blame
• made up the difference
• gorging on

  • to eat until you are unable to eat any more
    [R] If you gorge yourself on crisps like that, you won't eat your dinner.
• fuel an increase in the most deadly disease
• excess high fructose corn syrup consumption to an increase in risk factors for heart disease and stroke.
• That suggests calories from added sugars are different than calories from other foods.
• The mantra
• lockdown

  • an official order to control the movement of people or vehicles because of a dangerous situation
    a three-day lockdown of American airspace
    Prisoners have been placed on lockdown to prevent further violence at the jail.
    The prison warden ordered an instant lockdown = prisoners were locked in their cells.
    The city schools were in lockdown.
• baseline blood levels
• the liver gets overloaded with fructose and converts some of it into fat. Some of that fat ends up in the bloodstream and helps generate a dangerous kind of cholesterol called small dense LDL. These particles are known to lodge in blood vessels, form plaque and are associated with heart attacks.
• drinking a sweetened drink might be just as bad for their hearts as the fatty cheeseburgers we've all been warned about since the 1970s.

• If you limit your sugar you decrease your chances of developing cancer?

  Lewis Cantley: Absolutely.
• across the board

  • across the board
    involving everyone or everything in a company, an industry, etc
    The industry needs more investment across the board.
    an across-the-board wage increase

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• grisly Woolwich
• Suffice to say the man grasped a knife and a cleaver in his blood-smeared hands as he ranted into one or more cell phone cameras.
• crumpled onto the street was Rigby’s body.

  • crumple (ˈkrʌmpə l) vb 1 when intr, often foll by up to collapse or cause to collapse his courage crumpled 2 when tr, often foll by up to crush or cause to be crushed so as to form wrinkles or creases 3 intr to shrink; shrivel ▷ n 4 a loose crease or wrinkle [c16: from obsolete crump to bend; related to Old High German krimpfan to wrinkle, Old Norse kreppa to contract] > ˈcrumply adj
• in video the mind fills in the blanks, amplifying, not softening the horror.
• The blood and the blades spoke ghastly volumes,
• the bloody diatribe

  • di·a·tribe: A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something
• If you don’t want to propagate more mass murders, don’t start the story with sirens blaring.
• intercut the psychiatrist’s advice with contemporaneous examples of the British press ignoring the best practices at every turn.

  • crosscut (ˈkrɒsˌkʌt) adj 1 cut at right angles or obliquely to the major axis ▷ n 2 a transverse cut or course 3 a less common word for short cut 4 mining a tunnel through a vein of ore or from the shaft to a vein ▷ vb -cuts, -cutting, -cut 5 to cut across 6 Also intercut films to link (two sequences or two shots) so that they appear to be taking place at the same time

  • crosscut (ˈkrɒsˌkʌt) adj 1 cut at right angles or obliquely to the major axis ▷ n 2 a transverse cut or course 3 a less common word for short cut 4 mining a tunnel through a vein of ore or from the shaft to a vein ▷ vb -cuts, -cutting, -cut 5 to cut across 6 Also intercut films to link (two sequences or two shots) so that they appear to be taking place at the same time
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  • • in·ter·cut: Alternate (scenes or shots) with contrasting scenes or shots to make one composite scene in a film
• it’s an easy stunt to reproduce.
• On the other hand, there are genuine risks to sensationalizing coverage. First, there is the competitive impulse to exploit the horror and the victims for more titillation than illumination, which degrades the media and audience alike
• other attention seekers to commit similar atrocities for the very purpose of dominating the news.
• And terror cannot spread in a publicity vacuum nor, by the way, can violent reaction.
• And individual expressions of rabid racism and xenophobia, like this woman on YouTube:

  • rab·id: Having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something
• but let's also think about what brought them to full boil,

  • brought them to full boil,
• In fact, due to a wrinkle of British law called sub judice, media there are forbidden to print or air anything which could prejudice the proceedings of an act of criminal investigation or trial.

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