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Topic: Fishwrap vs. Fishbowl
| Author | Message |
| DCprGURU92 | Posted – 2/12/2007 2:54:16 PM | show profile I just noticed The Washington Times has a Fishwrap section. Any connection to Fishbowl or perhaps competition??? |
| GrammarRodeoQueen | Posted – 12/16/2007 4:23:34 PM | show profile | email poster No connection They're trying their hand at the blog thing. Fishwrap (a name of one of them) is one of those archaic journalism terms -- back in the day, people used to wrap newspapers in fish, and newspapers acquired that synonym |
| GrammarRodeoQueen | Posted – 12/16/2007 4:26:50 PM | show profile | email poster oops *FISH was wrapped in newspapers. Not the other way around. :) |
