It should be made illegal for any media organisation to name any scandal by appending the primary noun with "-GATE".
It makes no sense! Watergate wasn't about water! It was at a hotel called the Watergate. Calling something "corn-gate" or "porn-gate" or "Camilla-gate" just makes no sense and seems to suggest lazy journalists.
"What shall we call our lead story?"
"What's it about?"
"We don't know yet, but it's big! Real big!"
"Let's go with: Scandal-gate."
"Brilliant. I beg you to father my children."
I'm guessing you just saw the news with the Police and "Porngate"?
Posted by: Emba at April 21, 2005 08:31 PMGood guess :)
Posted by: phreq at April 22, 2005 07:58 AMLazy journalism? Surely never!
Posted by: Rachel at April 23, 2005 11:41 AMI know, it's like saying 'female cows'.
Posted by: phreq at April 23, 2005 07:35 PMThey're gateoholics.
Posted by: stephen at April 26, 2005 02:36 PM