Cliché corner
By
Suzan Revah
Suzan Revah is a former AJR associate editor.
"In fact, sexual harassment has spawned a cottage industry based on teaching companies how to train their employees and protect themselves..." ( New Orleans' Times-Picayune )
"Some so-called experts have turned fear-mongering about Islam into a cottage industry ." ( Providence Journal-Bulletin )
"That's the consensus of pundits and analysts who seem to be constructing a cottage industry wondering about Wired in the wake of the San Francisco media company's aborted initial public stock offerings." ( San Francisco Examiner )
"...attorneys have expanded or earned gigs based on their stardom as TV pundits for the first Simpson trial, all of them helping inflate an already swollen cottage industry of legal tongues...." ( Los Angeles Times )
"Lists are more than just a fad; they're a cottage industry . Some lists, like the best/worst-dressed list of fashion's Mr. Blackwell, are famous for no good reason." ( Rocky Mountain News )
"Computers and improvements in technology have made high-quality IDs a cottage industry on many college campuses...." ( Washington Post )
from more than 150 references during a
four-week period in November and December ###
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