blamecasting

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:38 AM -0400 10/24/08, Marc Velasco wrote:
>archive search shows no hits, so I think this is new here.
>
>heard today on Diane Rehm show, _blamecasting_
>google hits for blamecast, blamecasting: ~ 363.
>
>broadcast + blame ?
>
>apparently spread blame far and wide, kind of like it sounds.  or maybe just
>an intensification of blame?
>
I'd think it could incorporate either sense of "broadcast"--the
original, as you suggest, involving wide dispersion by any means, or
more likely the now primary sense involving electronic media
transmission (excluding newspapers or word of mouth, but probably
including cablecasting on FOX, MSNBC, CNN, et al., as well as talk
radio).

LH

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