lamestream

[Garson O'Toole]

The first citation I could find for lamestream or lame-stream as a
derisive version of mainstream is in 1990. Barry Popik's excellent
1999 cite was for "lamestream media".

1990 December, Spin magazine, House Music Map of the Western World,
Page 32, SPIN Media LLC.

In the meantime, we listen to "Vogue" and other remixed B sides of
lame-stream artists that have been fashionably house-ified.

http://books.google.com/books?id=RDWxkmx1bj4C&q=lame+stream#v=snippet&

A January 2008 message in the ADS archive mentions Australia's
Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year voting. The word lamestream was
a candidate.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0801B&L=ADS-L&P=R3359

Garson

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Benjamin Zimmer
> <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Jonathan Lighter
>> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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/
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>> --Ben Zimmer
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