Politicians cry 'gotcha'
Gotcha journalism was how Senator John McCain explained to CBS a story that he and his running mate disagreed on their policy about interventions in Pakistan.
The phrase is increasingly used to simply to mean sloppy or irresponsibly journalism. But originally a gotcha involved taking a quote out of context to trap an interview subject - see Wikipedia.
Interestingly, the phrase would seem to come from the famous Sun headline of 1982. This was not gotcha journalism so much as tasteless journalism, although the headline only appeared in early editions before scale of the loss of life became clear. See Roy Greenslade's article in the Guardian from 2002.
The phrase is increasingly used to simply to mean sloppy or irresponsibly journalism. But originally a gotcha involved taking a quote out of context to trap an interview subject - see Wikipedia.
Interestingly, the phrase would seem to come from the famous Sun headline of 1982. This was not gotcha journalism so much as tasteless journalism, although the headline only appeared in early editions before scale of the loss of life became clear. See Roy Greenslade's article in the Guardian from 2002.
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