Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge and Rome. She writes The Wordshop on Substack.
Thank goodness the midterm elections are over! The most recent challenge was to come up with a word for local political ads on television, whose omnipresence in October was driving many of you bonkers.
Chris Duval of Boston wrote: “I think antiganda would be a fitting term for those ads. They are overwhelmingly made to frighten voters by smearing the opposing candidate with wildly distorted (alternative?) facts and allegations.” Scott Ritch of Wrentham concurred, writing: “Most of these political TV ads are not only annoying
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