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Bored Journalist Syndrome 

Virus affecting 99% of Beltway reporters
With the attention span of a mentally addled fruit fly, political reporters like Ken fucking Vogel and Sally fucking Buzbee get tired of covering the same things every day. When Vivek Rama-smarmy started running they screamed "he's the new Jesus!" when in actuality he was and is a lead balloon—made famous by bored, agitated journalists. When tasked with covering Mueller Report during Tangerine Jesus' 4-year reign of terror, reporters got anxious and fidgety which is when Bored Journalist Syndrome was born.
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Bored Journalist Syndrome 

affliction causing Beltway stenographers to pine for return of Casino Mobster
At a recent White House Press Briefing, journalists whined to Karine Jean-Pierre about not having enough pizazz, bells and whistles to keep their attention and on reporter said "but trump used to come in to talk to us!" those dickbags have Bored Journalist Syndrome and need to take up a fucking hobby if they miss the fascist so much.

yellow journalism 

The use of cheaply sensational or unscrupulous methods in newspapers to attract and influence the readers.
99.3% of what is in tabloid newspapers is yellow journalism.

moon journalism 

Investigative journalism aimed at bringing the dirty secrets of a well-known person to light - in other words, exposing an asshole.
The official seemed set for a successful political career until a brilliant piece of moon journalism exposed his fraudulent activities.
moon journalism by mynah1 September 19, 2009

Urban Dictionary journalism

he act of using Urban Dictionary for fact checking the definition of words that were used before the existence of Urban Dictionary.
According to Urban Dictionary journalism, Kavanaugh is obviously lying about the definition of boof, which he and his friends used in the early 1980s, because I read the definition on a website that was created in 1999.

gotcha journalism 

simple, straight-forward questions that cannot be answered by inept politicians.
katie couric: "governor palin, how many fingers am i holding up?"

sarah palin: "you know katie, i'm sick and tired of this gotcha journalism."
gotcha journalism by bun September 30, 2008

Gaslight Journalism 

Gaslight journalism is when a journalist write inflammatory article or review bomb any personality/company by falsely accusing them of discrimination or try to get dirt on them by finding something negative in their past and run their article repeatedly to making the victim believe they are really guilty. They do this force the person/company to hire people who only believe in point of view of gaslight journalist or sometime hire the service of journalist itself. They can even manipulate them toward funding particular organisation or even political party.
Guy1- Remember that self proclaimed journalist who accused gaming company of being ultra sexist and racist?
Guy2- Yeah! what happened?
Guy1- Today he/she asked that company to hire her/him as "Consultant and expert of these issue"
Guy2- lol, thats gaslight journalism. Those companies ain't that stupid!