Careergate

I whole-heartedly agree with the gentleman who wrote to the Guardian last week and declared that "ANY '-gate' suffix, apart from the one and only original, is banned, and that persons attempting an offence will be shot at dawn on an empty stomach."

The continued use of the appendage 'gate' to any minor or major scandal is the epitome of sloppy journalism. Delingpole laid the straw that broke the camel's back when, in his blog, 'Climategate: Mad Sunday', he coined the phrase 'Africagate', in reference to a potentially erroneous claim regarding climatic impacts on north African crop production in the Fourth IPCC Assessment Report.

Africagate?! I can't think of a less-specific and impenetrable label for a news event.

It would appear that the proliferation of '"gate" dubbings' in a journalist's work, is in inverse proportion to the quality of said journalist.