Speak with any news copy editor for the talking heads, and they’ll tell you, that the vocabulary level of you evening news must not exceed a 7th grade level of comprehension.
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" Big Words confuse the viewers ". I was told by a former network news chief, relatively recently.
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Sadly, with the exception of the Opinion Page Contributors, ( Newspaper Columnist, in the old days ), the print media isn’t far behind in simplistic writing.
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The average American, it seems, has morphed into Homer Simpson…DUH !
Is the news “dumbed down” ?
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YES !
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.I am, unfortunately, not making this up !
Speak with any news copy editor for the talking heads, and they’ll tell you, that the vocabulary level of you evening news must not exceed a 7th grade level of comprehension.
.
" Big Words confuse the viewers ". I was told by a former network news chief, relatively recently.
.
Sadly, with the exception of the Opinion Page Contributors, ( Newspaper Columnist, in the old days ), the print media isn’t far behind in simplistic writing.
.
The average American, it seems, has morphed into Homer Simpson…DUH !