Language Purists Sack 'You're Fired!'
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DETROIT - From wardrobe malfunctions to erectile dysfunction, it's been a tough year all around for the guardians of English - language purists from blue, red and battleground states who long to say "You're fired!" to offensive words and phrases.
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Media union Bectu confirms it is representing a 6 Music producer sacked following a probe into faked phone-ins.
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The latest in ghastly corporate gaffes: mass firings by email.
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Samuel Zell, the new head of the Tribune Company, said his colorful, sometimes profane, language is intended to âshockâ the paperâs staff and shake it âout of complacency.â
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Journalists who advise boards to "sell the company" or "fire all the executives," but have no management experience, lack credibility. They also sound like complete idiots.
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Controversial publisher Judith  Regan, whose plan to publish a book by O.J. Simpson called "If  I Did It" ignited a firestorm of criticism, was fired for  making anti-Semitic remarks in an argument with a colleague, a  publishing source said on Monday.
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An employee of bookseller chain Waterstone's has been fired for bringing the company into disrepute after he made entries on his weblog site identifying it in code as "B*****dstone's" and accusing it of slavery.
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An English sports commentator was fired Tuesday for making a joke about the tsunami disaster.
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It was two for the price of "you're fired" on NBC'S "The Apprentice." On Thursday's episode, Donald Trump eliminated two candidates instead of the requisite one. After losing a task centering on creating a Levi's catalog, project manager Wes Moss of the Mosaic team put the entire group up for firing.
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Dan Counce was fired as the Colorado Rapids' general manager after eight years on the job, a move that came a week after the Major League Soccer team dismissed coach Tim Hankinson.
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update Craig Conway has been fired as president and chief executive officer of PeopleSoft and will be replaced by founder Dave Duffield, the company said Friday.
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Anupam Kher has been ousted as Censor Board chief. What is your say?
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A German public television network on  Sunday sacked a popular talk show host and former news  presenter after she had praised the Nazi&#39;s family policies at a  news conference for her new book on child-rearing.
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The publisher of a Florida paper quits after it rehires three journalists sacked over anti-Cuba broadcasts.
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With apologies to people who can't type ICANN wants to destroy domain tasters at the expense of poor typists.â¦
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Tycho:  I can really do without a lot of the corporate sniping that happens in this industry.  Plus, as a licensed demagogue, they're horning in on my territory when they say ridiculous things or make baseless verbal assaults!  I mean, I have mouths to feed.  Seriously, I have more than one mouth.
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The English language is being destroyed by a "deadly virus of management speak" which has infected the mouths and minds of politicians like Tony Blair and George W. Bush, a leading journalist says.