lamestream

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A day or so after Sarah Palin warned (Saturday) "Don't believe what you hear
> in the lamestream media," I noticed CNN had a map put up on the screen
> plainly marked with "PAKISTAN" and "AFGANANASTAN."

That's pretty lamestream.

Barry Popik, by the way, dates "lamestream media" back to 1999:

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/lamestream_media_lame_stream_media/


--Ben Zimmer

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