John T Lowry wrote:
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Though I admit I still get a bit exercised over the gaffes on
TV; it seems they go out of their way to hire illiterates, especially

for writing the crawl along the lower portion of the screen.


Our local newscasters are the worst. You can tell as soon as they
depart from the script on the teleprompter to make insightful comments
on the story. They just start stringing a bunch of words together and
in their quest to sound knowledgable (and to fill 10 seconds), they
often end up saying the opposite of what they intended to say.

The sad part is that no one seems to be the least bit embarrassed
about such performances.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)