The Death Of News
Looking at the murderous ways radio and TV reporters are using sloppy writing, bad grammar and lazy news gathering techniques to kill the creativity of news. We wrap this short episode up up with suggestions on how to keep creative storytelling alive.
Episodes
Knowing what you're talking about and eliminating extraneous words are underutilized skills.
About the only place on Earth that you will hear a verbless sentence is on the news. In this episode, ABC World News Tonight getting clobbered. (That's a verebless sentence)
For nearly thirty years, many reporters have been using the wrong terminology for non-firearm weapons used for crowd control. Forever, many reporters have been using inflammatory words. There's no need for either.
Is A a word or a letter? And why is and used as a number?
Why do journalists keep saying Diddy? Seems a little too cute. Also, what's with anchors throwing in extra words and thanking reporters for reporting?
Nobody knows what someone thinks or how they feel. But many journalists seem to think they know. Why is that?
Why do so many journalists love to turn nouns into adjectives while putting people behind bars? It's not the way normal people talk.
The Problem: TV reporter interviews a witness who didn't witness anything, except a helicopter flying over the scene of a fatal accident in which a San Bernardino County, CA Sheriff's Deputy was killed.
The Fix: We explain how to avoid that and what to do instead.
It's best to avoid adding syllables to words, and mispronouncing the names of cities and people.
By tomorrow at 6 AM in the morning, you'll know how to help stamp out time redundancies.
A journalist's job does not include telling us what to do. Here are some examples of how it should and should not be done.
Elementary school kids make this mistake but adults they shouldn't. (Hint: This sentence is grammatically incorrect)
You don't say, "quote" / "unquote" in everyday polite conversation. Journalists shouldn't, either.
When the California Highway Patrol chased an SUV through the terminal at LAX, sparks flew and so did a TV helicopter. The airborne crew shot some great video as they followed the SUV and CHP until the guys in the SUV stopped and bailed. The cops went for the driver and took him down on camera.
I saw this on a Thursday afternoon but apparently it happened the night before. Nobody said WHEN it happened. That's a problem, because ...
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