Re(2): MLK Day Snow Kansas City Posted on January 15, 2024 at 08:59:33 PM by observer
If you're concerned about the NWS's forecasts, then why do the TV stations have 'meteorologists' or is the NWS their source and all they are are pretty faces and big boobs?
I've noticed the difference between large market show producers and small market producers, is that in the small markets they don't bother to remove the cop-speak out of their crime news... they just read it verbim.
Like nobody uses the word 'juveniles' except cops dictating reports. That's called COP-SPEAK. TV producers are taught to write to "the Kansas City milkman" in one style.
But PR flacks never learned how to write a written SCRIPT, they all write for newspaper with dependent clauses and then the subj-verb.
Except for ABC News... they all drop pretty much ALL verbs, going way out of their way to avoid using past tense.
ABC will say "Tonight" even tho things happened yesterday or early this mornng.
And nobody's DEAD....everyone's DYING, the present participle meaning that the act of dying is a long term process. Which makes no sense unless they're barely alive and hanging on, all the way to the hospital.
And why does ABC tell field reporters to put a hard lead on THEIR reports when the Anchor's already said the hard lead in the lead-in to throw it to the field guy?
Its just horrible writing. Now NBC's stealing out of ABC's horrible style book. CBS, tho, in the style of Walter Cronkite, Sevareid and Murrow are still trying to write like they did during the war. Replies: