TY - BOOK AU - Waterhouse,Keith AU - Trog TI - Waterhouse on newspaper style SN - 9780956368690 U1 - 808.06 PY - 2010/// CY - England PB - Revel Barker Publisher KW - Journalism KW - Style manuals KW - Authorship KW - Tabloid newspapers N1 - Introduction -- Glossary for non-journalists -- Standfirst -- Adjectives -- Alliteration -- And now -- The asthmatic comma -- Captions -- Catchword -- Clichés (standard) -- Clichés (trade) -- Compression -- Consequences -- Crossheads -- Dead letters -- Dots and dashes -- Dramatic events drama -- Facetiousness -- Free speech -- Grammar -- Great minds -- How say you? -- Hyphens -- Illiterals -- Imaginary rules -- The incredible blob -- Inelegant variation -- The intro -- I say, I say -- Italic and bold -- Jargon -- Journalese -- Just-so stories -- Kneejerks -- Lists -- Little by little -- Metaphor and simile -- More haste -- Not only but also -- The number game -- Officialese -- Oh, really? -- Ooh la la -- Paragraphs -- The pay-off -- Person to person -- Polysyllables -- Puns and wordplay -- Quote unquote -- Ramboism -- Rank and file -- Says who? -- Screamers! -- Sexism -- Sex romps -- Stagger off -- Supernumeraries -- Tabloidese -- Tautology -- The top -- The weather-vane -- What rot -- Which is that? -- What is style? N2 - This book has a complex history. It was originally written in 1979 as a series of style notes for journalists on the Daily Mirror, and it has gone in and out of print ever since - whilst simultaneously establishing a reputation as a classic of clear guidance and an analysis of tabloid journalism. Keith Waterhouse is one of the old Fleet Street school who actually care about clarity, accuracy, and good prose style. Writing from the point of view of a working journalist, he inspects the linguistic practice of the press and reveals its weaknesses in a series of witty mini-essays. He adopts the A-to-Z format - from Adjectives through Metaphor to the Weather - looking at usage and abusage in a way which is both instructive and very amusing ER -