Michael Shmith: Away with Cliché

Irritating Language I want to see banned. Immediately.
Join Michael Shmith, Age Senior Writer and Opera Critic, for hi-jinks and hilarity, as he runs through his A-Z hitlist of terrible words and phrases he never again wishes to see in print or hear in news broadcasts.
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Michael Shmith has worked in daily journalism for most of his professional life. He is a senior writer for The Age, Melbourne, and also the paper’s opera critic. He is a former arts editor and travel editor of The Age. Although he specialises in arts journalism, he writes on many other subjects â€... Read more
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