English edit

Etymology edit

media +‎ -speak

Noun edit

mediaspeak (uncountable)

  1. The jargon used by the mass media.
    • 2007, Jan Riepe, The Future Belongs To Crowds, page 72:
      Mainly White Noise and Libra are full of mediaspeak from television, radio and the tabloids.
    • 2007, Philip Metres, Behind the lines, page 117:
      Unlike Ginsberg's use of omnipresent mediaspeak to critique the abstractions of the war, Balaban employs less accessible texts in “The Gardenia in the Moon.”