The magazine has sought to revive the art of the essay in Britain, calling itself a response to "a market swamped by the journalistic equivalent of fast food".

Gone is the self-editing, the elliptical responses that made profiling her the journalistic equivalent of covering, say, geology as it happens.

Recently, an editorial in The Decatur Herald & Review said national news organizations had committed the journalistic equivalent of a drive-by shooting.

I had perpetrated the journalistic equivalent of "Roll Over Chuck Berry."

Krance characterized his output as "the journalistic equivalent of Tuna Helper."

The time was passed with show-biz stunts: new bit players, mindless speculation that became the journalistic equivalent of sideshows, and Emmy-caliber hyperventilation by star newscasters.

The second is attributing all statements about what occurred, was said or was thought to named sources - the journalistic equivalent of footnotes.

The others often fear they will end up the journalistic equivalents of soda jerks at Schwab's.

The idea that blacks can get away with the journalistic equivalent of murder at The Times because they are black is preposterous.

It was the journalistic equivalent of mingling with your own pod replicant in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."