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Do your local news broadcast stations make lots of errors? We have one that I believe is written and edited by eighth graders.

Posted - March 8, 2018
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  • 19938

    Not so much errors in the writing of the news, but lately, one of the anchors on the CBS Evening News at 6 PM seems to have a great deal of trouble reading the news without making mistakes or reads something that she thinks is the end of the sentence and then picks up as though the next words are the beginning of another sentence.  For example, "The road was not properly cleared of snow."  "And ice by the Sanitation Department."

      March 8, 2018 9:21 AM MST
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  • 44553
    Jeff Glor is doing that news session.
      March 8, 2018 10:11 AM MST
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  • 19938
    Jeff Glor I actually on the 6:30 PM news program.  He's pretty good.  It's Dana Tyler who seems to be having difficulty getting her script straight.
      March 8, 2018 1:50 PM MST
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  • 44553
    Oops. My bad. Our news at 6 is local. I am an idiot.
      March 8, 2018 1:53 PM MST
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  • 19938
    Not harm done.  The people I find most irritating are the weather people on CBS.  Lonnie Quinn is overly dramatic.  He likes the weather story to be more about him than the weather. 
      March 8, 2018 2:05 PM MST
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  • 44553
    Our local CBS forecaster looks like he is ballet dancing.
      March 9, 2018 7:16 AM MST
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  • 19938
    LOL ... the other CBS weather people aren't much better.  Elise Finch always sounds like she's hyperventilating.  I find myself taking deep breaths when she's doing the weather. 
      March 9, 2018 8:01 AM MST
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  • 46117
    Why would I care about that when it is NATIONWIDE?

    If this moron station can garner interest in the millions, of course morons in small areas will try and copy the same unresourced lies.

      March 8, 2018 9:23 AM MST
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  • 44553
    Unfortunately, the above station switches to fox for another session of the same old crap. I don't go there.
      March 8, 2018 10:12 AM MST
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  • 53404


      Their grammar is horrible. I'm constantly shouting at the screen. 



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      March 8, 2018 10:04 PM MST
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  • 44553
    Ours often mispronounce words. Example: One woman anchor pronounced the city of Tucson "Tukson". This post was edited by Element 99 at March 9, 2018 10:44 AM MST
      March 9, 2018 7:18 AM MST
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  • 5835
    The name of that city is Tucson and it is correctly pronounced "Tucson" although most people say "too sawn". The place has always been called that. In the language of the local tribe it means "dark water", which refers to the mud spring. Flow was stopped by an earthquake in 1859.
      March 9, 2018 8:02 AM MST
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  • 44553
    She can't pronounce it, I can't spell it. How embarrassing. Glad you found it before Randy did.
      March 9, 2018 10:42 AM MST
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  • 5835
    There is no news station in my locality. I don't even listen to radio because I can't tell the outlaw stations from the gospel stations. I sometimes listen to Mexican stations just because I can tell which ones they are. Mexicans don't play insipid music.
      March 9, 2018 8:05 AM MST
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