‘Boffin’, ‘fracas’ and other words that only journos use

There's a particular language that journalists use in writing their articles and scripts. Reporters are usually pretty direct, they use particular monikers. Sometimes they use jargon, sometimes they fall back on cliches. And then there's a whole particular suite of words and phrases that have been almost entirely wiped from English speakers' vocabularies, apart from journalists'. Here are some of Crikey's favourites:

A blow