[sparklite2]

Pity the poor journalism student: He, or she, has to keep up with so many ways to spin a story that it would make George Orwell dizzy.

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I’d like to see journalists denied the use of adjectives. That would make it harder to spin the stories they cover.

[Academiadotorg]

Interesting that you should mention that. I’ve long told my journalism interns to avoid them and, it turns out, that was a writing tip Hemingway got when he was a reporter that he carried on in his fiction.