I agree, it's a terrible suffix, completely overplayed, and... let's face it, most of the news-consuming audience is too young to remember Watergate anyway.
I'll also rephrase and say I think the current trend of giving a concise name / label to everything is contributing to the soundbite mentality. This is the "Wikileaks of US State Dept cables". From there, you can keep referring to the "cables" for short.
I'll concede that labels makes it easier for search engines, but I am not convinced that that is a good thing.
The only ways to stop a practice like that are to supplant it with a more popular word or suffix (which will someday annoy someone else), or to have the world go long enough without a scandal they use it to describe that it fades from use and memory.
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 34.4 ms ] threadWhat's the plain words for this?
I'll concede that labels makes it easier for search engines, but I am not convinced that that is a good thing.
Good luck.
I've already found how to filter them: View -> Filter. (Althought it always times out, too much documents).
Edit: Here you can see them all including content: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948360