Comments on: PR 101 Daily Rant #25 Will somebody please teach television reporters proper English

By: John

John — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:01:38 +0000

I have to agree with rmuch of television eporting. It is primarily why I rarely watch the news. I do admit to being tired of the negative reporting and prefer to get my news via NPR each morning, or from a local radio station that covers our county.

Thanks for the rant!

By: Roger Bentley

Roger Bentley — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:12:21 +0000

The one that drives me crazy is “comin up…” Please, people, if you can’t say “next”, at least put the “g” where it belongs.

In the UK, the call the people on TV “news readers” — it is good to distinguish them from journalists.

By: Connie

Connie — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:22:41 +0000

My husband and I talk about this all the time but see it spreading to the all news media nationwide. Our number one peeve is when the anchor shifts to the reporter. Almost every time the reporter answer “Yah, Mike” what happened to “Yes” or Thank You Mike”? My husband also has problems with the use of “Cops” instead of Police Officer or Officer.

Losing battle I’m afraid.

By: Benn Achilleas

Benn Achilleas — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:02:12 +0000

I agree with you. It really annoys me too. The culture of adding unnecessary superlatives or adjectives is now common place.

Oh and just for the record, there is a typo in para 5:
” I could listen dozen of other examples” – could you list them or actually listen them?

People in glass houses, eh?

By: Sumit Singh

Sumit Singh — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:39:00 +0000

HI Jeff,

This is something am sure most of us come across on a daily basis.. Your views were correctly analyzed and crisp.

Surely there has to be someone to put a tab on this. As to make a story more interesting incorrect adjectives are being used, no one cares what the story says.. its just about grabbing the eyeballs.

Most if the TV crew is selected basis their good looks and a talking ability with a nice accent. Whereas i also would believe that a TV reporter should be even with the subject he/she is to talk about rather than rushing to the spot and making headlines out of it.

regards,
Sumit

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By: Janet Lawson

Janet Lawson — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:33:07 +0000

Oh good Lord, I could go on for hours on this! The number 1 thing that seems to have crept into reports and conversation is the use of “less” when “fewer” is appropriate. People assume that because you’ve made it to the “big time” (e.g., a reporting or presenting job in journalism), what you say and how it’s said is correct. More often than not, it isn’t

Now if CNN can just find a closed-caption typist that knows the difference between “there,” “their,” and “they’re!”

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:28:16 +0000

Good rant Jeff. It drives me crazy too, so much I can’t even watch local news. I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard one of them say “irregardless” !