Agreed. They are all so cute with their little wordplays, their special parlance.
Truth is they are all lemmings, all terrified little rodents, wanting to be part of the cool crowd, the latest lingo...I worked for newspapers for some short while, and was disgusted by the mimicry, emulation, the crying need to get the nod.
Someone might coin some giggly term or phrase---and for the next month the entire newsroom couldn't spit out a sentence without working it in.
Losers.
And I hate the term “talking points”