Posts Tagged ‘cliche’

Metaphors: stores who hate customers, customers who don’t buy and a bunch of clichés

A headline shop Danny Sullivan’s If Newspapers Were Stores, Would Visitors Be “Worthless” Then? At the store, the news exec owner greets visitors by asking them what the hell they want. Perplexed, they visitors say they heard about these stories and wanted to know more. The exec shouts at them. “Get the hell out of [...]

Metaphors for the state of news and its future

Update: This post has grown long enough that new metaphors and similes are going into new posts. There are lots of metaphors being thrown around for the current state of the news industry. On a suggestion from Steve Buttry, I’m collecting as many of them as possible. Add your suggestions in the comments, or @reply [...]