Little have I known that the decline in traditional journalism has been going on so rapidly across the pond. Having learned the English language as my 2nd language at school, we students would never have gotten away with writing such things like the examples you pointed out. Those neologisms, relatively new word creations consisting of parts of other words, would be funny if they weren’t actually presented in a paper. It’s things like that which might allow for the more and the less educated guesses about the future of journalism in the internet age: the one where it’s a mere hobby of people to write about stuff (bloggers) and where it might be near impossible to do investigative journalism because whistle-blowers are too easy to be found out with the help of your everyday spying tools such as f*c*book.

But neologisms have become fashionable even in politics in the not so distant past, so it should not be too much of a surprise they appear in print now, too.

Then again, good blogs like yours reveal to the reader a difference between themselves and those kind of papers currently in print which seek to stir up emotions in the reader with every paragraph they write, just for the sake of selling more papers, even if the reader would benefit more from a more levelheaded attitude about a certain subject.

The current era clearly requires a different kind of media competence from people living in it than the pre-internet era.
And by that I don’t mean understanding words which are not words but being able to tell apart valid and new information from non-issues and manipulation attempts.
And now here’s a compliment: Yours is one of the best blogs I have come across so far. And I consider IndyCar quite lucky to have you around as a voluntary journalist.

I hope I have not been a word butcherer in this post, but if some kind of mistake (is that called a “word butcher” now?) slipped by me, I’d like to apologize.

All the best
Y.