[Ads-l] mediatic

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Interesting topic, Amy, The term is used in academic discourse. Here
are two matches in JSTOR from the 1980s.

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Gods, Princes, and Scribes
Journal Article
Review: Gods, Princes, and Scribes
Teachers, Writers, Celebrities: The Intellectuals of Modern France by
Régis Debray, David Macey Le scribe by Régis Debray Critique de la
raison politique by Régis Debray
Review by: Marc Chénetier
October, Vol. 24 (Spring, 1983), pp. 103-115

...to the importance of work largely neglected by political and
mediatic oracles. I shall merely indicate the overall economy of the
text and a few of its major fields of investigation. The four sections
of the Critique- "Logic of Appearance," "Physics of Be- lief," "Logic
of Organization," "Physics of Orthodoxy"- explore...
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Journal Article
Résumés / Abstracts
M. Dumont, D. Négrel
Cahiers du Monde russe et soviétique, Vol. 28, No. 2, Autour de la
presse russe et soviétique (Apr. - Jun., 1987), pp. 221-226

...in the two capitals, these publications and groups undertake the
mission of provoking and rejuvenating public debates in Russia. These
discussions echoed systematically by the daily press (provincial
periodicals included) create a "mediatic" image of the writer, whose
income and image are thus modified...
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Garson

On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 1:25 PM Ben Zimmer
<00001aae0710f4b7-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm somewhat reminded of "toyetic" ("suitable to be made into a
> toy"), which Garson posted about here in 2012 (and was added to the OED in
> 2021).
>
> https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2012-June/120015.html
>
> It was evidently coined in 1977 by Bernard Loomis, then president of the
> Kenner toy company. The "-etic" suffix may have been inspired by words like
> "genetic" or "aesthetic."
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2026 at 12:08 PM Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:
>
> > 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>/.
> >
> >
> >
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