Words used only by journalists

• Amanuensis
• Associated with/linked to (could mean anything really, A associated/linked with B however tenuously)
• Bandwagon
• Blogosphere
• Blogotariat
• Brushed off (you can brush off a journalist, but that doesn't necessarily mean you've addressed the issue. Usually refers to the point at which a journalist gave up on getting information)
• Bumper (meaning 'large')
• Crashed through the barrier/Crashed out of (initially an attempt at creating excitement on normal movements of events, now a cliché you have to fight in order to make sense of the story)
• Dearth (opp. of 'Windfall', see below)
• Doyen(ne), n. journalist who's been in Canberra so long that they no longer understand what's going on, can't relate to anyone outside Canberra or who doesn't think parliamentary politics matters much
• Estranged
• Languishing (meaning being at a disadvantage, rather than relaxing)
• Mantle (a disguise)
• Offing, in the
• Pooch (dog, usually preceded by 'lovable' or 'pampered')
• Punters (not referring to people placing bets, but letting slip that you have no idea what people think other than cod extrapolation of polling stats)
• Scourge (used to refer to torture, now any kind of annoyance)
• Slugged (ref. to levying taxes, not to actual assault)
• Tightlipped
• Tome (book)
• Windfall

Verbs:

• To cruel (to limit one's chances)
• To debunk
• To don (wear; when used with 'mantle', means adopting a position, or moving to - see below)
• To hold talks
• To jet (maybe this would have some allure when few, wealthy people travelled by a jet-powered aeroplane, but since the 1980s it's just silly)
• To laud (seriously, have you ever heard anyone say I laud that)
• To move to (to act but not necessarily succeed, e.g. 'IMMIGRATION Minister Chris Bowen has moved to appease Woodside residents')
• To pen (to use the pen to write with, or even to produce written material without a pen)
• To re-sign (opp. of 'resign')
• To sport (see 'to don')
• To upbraid

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