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Living in Infamy

April 23, 2007 · 5 Comments

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Nothing to fear…..

On the morning after the Virginia Tech shootings, the morning news anchors all rushed down to Blacksburg to do their live remotes. Matt Lauer, from the Today show, turned to the camera and announced that yesterday had been ‘a day that will live in infamy’.

Who writes this stuff?

And why are they still working?

Broadcast journalism (with a very few exceptions), has always had terrible writing.

Turgid, banal, pointless, constipated.

Those are all good adjectives.

Where did this come from, the TV news voice? (more…)

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