"?-gate"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Michael Quinion wrote:
>
> Joel Berson asked:
>
> > Has the Rupert Murdoch/News Corp. scandal acquired a "-gate" name yet?
> > Among other potential parallels -- perhaps unto the future resignation
> > of the British executive branch leader, David Cameron -- I note that
> > Rupert Murdoch, Andy Coulson, Rebekah Brooks, and Les Hinton (publisher
> > of the Wall Street Journal and chief executive of Dow Jones & Co ) have
> > all denied knowledge of illegal activities during their watches.
> > Although they have all apologized for illegal acts that have been done,
> > by others.
>
> A common term in the British press is "hackgate", for example here today:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/16/phone-hacking-rupert-murdoch

I much prefer "Murdochalypse".

--bgz

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