So pleased that finally someone as iconic (=vastly overused news word) as Doonesbury is pointing out this absurd and insulting pop-news technique. Delivering the news clearly once having been a hallmark of good journalism, now tumbling down the abyss into absurd phrasings sounding like just learning to speak English.
No reason evident for this, networks’ strategy likely in punching up important words, not dealing with useless verbs and stuff. Possibly thinking they are saving time, allowing for a greater volume of news to fit into ever-compressing time slot due to networks’ greedy excessivizing the amount of commercial time. Possibly trying to make news sounding as in present tense, but people smartly knowing that’s just bogus.
Failing miserably at communicating unimpeachable and authoritative professionalism, sounding more like badly programmed robot. Smoothing out language with real verbs estimated as really not taking all that much more time, result being appreciated by those respecting a finely crafted sentence, not noticed by those not caring anyway.
So pleased that finally someone as iconic (=vastly overused news word) as Doonesbury is pointing out this absurd and insulting pop-news technique. Delivering the news clearly once having been a hallmark of good journalism, now tumbling down the abyss into absurd phrasings sounding like just learning to speak English.
No reason evident for this, networks’ strategy likely in punching up important words, not dealing with useless verbs and stuff. Possibly thinking they are saving time, allowing for a greater volume of news to fit into ever-compressing time slot due to networks’ greedy excessivizing the amount of commercial time. Possibly trying to make news sounding as in present tense, but people smartly knowing that’s just bogus.
Failing miserably at communicating unimpeachable and authoritative professionalism, sounding more like badly programmed robot. Smoothing out language with real verbs estimated as really not taking all that much more time, result being appreciated by those respecting a finely crafted sentence, not noticed by those not caring anyway.
Thank you so much, Garry.