This morning, NPR was advertising a conservation that will follow the VP debate this evening. To describe it, they strangely chose the word postmortem: "a postmortem discussion." Since I'm only familiar with the literal meaning of this word, and am pretty sure no one is slotted to die during the debate, I decided to check and see if there was a variant definition that explained this particular usage. Here's what I found:
postmortem: an analysis or discussion of an event after it has occurred, esp. in order to determine why it was a failure.
Awesome, NPR, our most objective news source is referring to the debate as a catastrophe before it has even taken place. I love NPR and usually find them very sophisticated, so I have to wonder how deliberate this word choice was.
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