stenographic

• “TP U BG, which supposedly means “FUCK” in stenographic shorthand, or SHTHPNS), it may not discriminate based on viewpoint (for instance, because ARYAN-1 conveys a “message of racial superiority”), nor may it use standards that are so vague that they can be a cloak for viewpoint discrimination (e.g., a “contrary to public policy” standard).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » (Maybe) Racist Vanity Plates and the First Amendment

• “She and Nancy corresponded daily in the "pothooks," as Jennie Bruce called the stenographic signs.”

  A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall

• “This week, the stenographic coverage our "leaders" count on features the administration's proposed $1.1 trillion in ten years deficit reduction versus the House Republicans' battles to shave up to $100 billion from this year's spending.”

  The Washington Post: Matt Miller: What the press isn't telling you about Obama's budget

• “They have to be clear and stop waffling or getting suckered into invented Republican arguments and claims which the stenographic mass media facilitates all the time.”

  Think Progress » Huckabee: Obama will win re-election.

• “I followed the Nixon Watergate stories breathlessly, but the Post has become much too comfortable with error and slipshod (stenographic) reporting.”

  Matthew Yglesias » A Suggested Correction for George Will

• “Media lapdogs are marked by stenographic tendencies, sympathetic frames and a reliance on industry jargon.”

  The Huffington Post: Max Stanley: How Revisionist Reporting Hurts Everyone

• “But it's treated rather blithely in a stenographic US media, with little attention to its substance or peril.”

  The Huffington Post: William Bradley: Drifting to War with Iran: Beware the Hysteria

• “Not only is "Sins of the Mother" supremely well made, but the dialogue is so believable as to border on the stenographic: "You don't like Boston?”

  The Wall Street Journal: Five Angry Men

• “However, it came from real journalists who were willing to do investigative work, not from "journalists" who rely on the stenographic/ass-kiss model of reporting and who comprise the majority of the D.C. press corps.”

  David Sirota: Access and Stenographic Journalism in the Obama Era

• “If you are rooted in access and stenographic journalism, as parts of (but not all of) the Prospect is, there's a natural tendency to treat more gently those whose access you rely on.”

  David Sirota: Access and Stenographic Journalism in the Obama Era

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