Unprecedented!!

[UnusualSuspect]

I mean, is it just me who has noticed this word being overused in news stories? Everything is unprecedented! In an unprecedented move the president of the unprecedented decided it was an unprecedented action to be unprecedented!

I'm so sick of hearing this word on the news I almost throw something at the TV and shout abuse when I hear it. I think it started around the time of the WTC 'terrorist' thing, and its been used and abused ever since. Not a news program can go by without someone coming up with the damn word. Do they get extra pay if they use it or something? Is there some sort of inside competition going on between rival newsreaders?

Its so crazy its unprecedented!

 

[UnusualSuspect]

Nice description of the single most destructive terrorist attack you have there. Although why did you feel the need to place the word terrorist in apostrophes, are you saying that somehow it wasn't a terrorist attck?

I was being.. uhh.. diplomatic! Which in itself is unprecedented! *cough* Theres plenty of conspiracy theories around about the cause not being terrorism, and I'm undecided. Theres certainly plenty of information to make me think something wasn't right that day. A mass of coincidences? Maybe.