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Noun Concept
Categories: Principles, English-language idioms, Dog idioms, Metaphors referring to people, Journalism terminology
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Man bites dog  Anti-cliche  Anti-cliché  Ben Nyaumbe  man-bites-dog
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The phrase man bites dog is a shortened version of an aphorism in journalism that describes how an unusual, infrequent event is more likely to be reported as news than an ordinary, everyday occurrence with similar consequences, such as a dog biting a man. Wikipedia
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The phrase man bites dog is a shortened version of an aphorism in journalism that describes how an unusual, infrequent event is more likely to be reported as news than an ordinary, everyday occurrence with similar consequences, such as a dog biting a man. Wikipedia
Aphoristic journalism expression. Wikipedia Disambiguation
aphorism in journalism Wikidata
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aphorism
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journalism
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Man bites dog
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man bites dog
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Anti-cliche, Anti-cliché, Ben Nyaumbe, Man-bites-dog, Man bites dog (journalism), Man bites dog journalism, Man bites dog trope
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man-bites-dog

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