Friday, August 31, 2012

mixed-up media/mixed media: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Friday, August 31, 2012

mixed-up media/mixed media 
Mixed media can be great; mixed-up media not so much.

Books are published, movies and musical recordings released, and plays and TV shows premiered.

Movies are shown, plays staged, and TV shows broadcast.

Technically recordings get deleted (from catalogs) or withdrawn rather than going out of print like books (which may also be remaindered: sold at discount, or worse—pulped). However, there is a strong tendency to use “out of print” for all kinds of media: CDs, DVDs, etc. Movies and stage shows close or end their runs, but only stage shows fold.

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