Tribune CEO Totally Changing the Game
I'm not totally opposed to the list of words and phrases banned by for use on WGN radio by Tribune CEO Randy Michaels (a gentleman just described by a former Tribune employee as "crazy/evil.") Some of his banned words are clearly just weird pet peeves of his ("famed"? "diva"? "false pretenses"?) but others-"under siege"! "under fire"!-are the sad things you hear endlessly if you ever turn on talk radio, which of course you don't, because if you're reading a blog you're probably not a full-time cab driver. What's really fascinating is that this list has almost no overlap with the list of words you should never use [...]
