A Compendium of Collective Nouns by Woop Studios

Author:Woop Studios [Studios, Woop]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2013-09-27T21:00:00+00:00

A Scoop of Journalists

“What a scoop!” The cry of many a wisecracking reporter in silver-screen screwball comedies was coined in the 1850s, but the term scoop wasn’t recorded being used in journalistic circles until 1874. The rise of scoop mirrors the rise of “yellow” journalism, which sought to capture a fickle reading public with bigger and more sensationalist news stories of murders and mayhem. The ink-stained, scoop-hungry journalist has never been grimier or greedier than in Billy Wilder’s 1951 masterpiece Ace in the Hole, in which newsman Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) says, “I can handle big news and little news. And if there’s no news, I’ll go out and bite a dog.”

A Slant of Journalists

slant: ('slant) v.i.

1. to take a diagonal course

2. to slope

n.

1. something that slants

2. a group of two or more journalists

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