My favourite is "denies", as in "Otherwise innocent person denies wild accusation"
If a journalist describes you as "embattled," they're saying you're guilty as charged. The word basically doesn't exist in spoken English. Its only use, except among castle nerds, is as a (seemingly neutral and presumably also libel-proof) press code word. https://news.google.com/search?q=embattled …
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no, it just means accused. it isn’t always used in the way you are suggesting.
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In the UK, describing someone as 'tired and emotional' was a non-libellous euphemism for 'drunk' But its use and meaning are now so common that it could now be considered defamatoryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tired_and_emotional …
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That's not correct.
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Possibly!
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I would take it as a literal military reference. The English language never stops amazing me.
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Speaking of military references, only recently did I learn the meaning of 'invested' wrt a siege.
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Until that presumption of being libel-proof is tested in court? :)
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My other favorite word which means something different in press is “a stranger”, which generally means “this reporter.” e.g. In the wake of a hurricane Maria was trying to find her family, asking a stranger if he had seen her son. And once you know this you will see it *a lot.*
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“Colourful businessman” was used in the Australian media in the 80s & 90s to describe unconvicted local mafia gangsters. E.g. “colourful local businessman Robert Trimbole...”
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