[Ads-l] mediatic

[Amy West]

I spotted this in a Boston Globe article:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/20/world/killing-gang-leader-trump-brings-war-on-terror-tactics-latin-america/

“Historically, the kingpin strategy has led to fragmentation and greater 
violence, and in some cases it’s actually been counterproductive,” said 
McDermott, co-founder of the think tank Insight Crime. “It’s much more 
mediatic than strategic.”

It didn't pop-up in searches of MWU, OED (whatever they offer for free 
on the web site), but Wiktionary had it:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mediatic:

adj. Relating to the media <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/media#English>.

2017 quote from Charles Linscott

 From /media <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/media#English>/ +‎ /-ic 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ic#English>/, with infix /-t-/ modelled 
on forms like /cinematic 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cinematic#English>/.

---Amy West

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