pixeldog Posted April 16, 2013 Posted April 16, 2013 Is anyone else bothered by the continuous present tense grammar that is used throughout the news casts? Maybe it's just overused by our local station and then I'm hyper-sensitive to it by the time the network news comes on, but it makes me crazy!! It's so distracting.....I can't watch the news anymore. "Firefighters knock out four-alarm fire in thirty minutes in Hendersonville. With residents looking on, homes and belongings are completely destroyed....." etc, etc. all in the present tense. It happened four hours ago! Can we shift to past tense now?! And then they air reports about how poor our country's grammar is..... Maybe homeschooling has turned me into the Grammar Nazi? Quote
Ellie Posted April 16, 2013 Posted April 16, 2013 And speaking in headlines instead of complete sentences: Firefighters knock out four-alarm fire. With residents looking on, homes and belongings completely destroyed. Embrace your inner grammar nazi, lol. Quote
pixeldog Posted April 16, 2013 Author Posted April 16, 2013 I think we'll turn it into an exercise! "Local homeschooling boy completing assignments on schedule as mother collapses in disbelief. Ten minutes later, mother recovers with glass of beaujolais!" Quote
kiwik Posted April 17, 2013 Posted April 17, 2013 I imagine irate news readers strangling the scriptwriters after the show. Quote
stripe Posted April 17, 2013 Posted April 17, 2013 I hate things like "Riots in Africa!" that turn out to be riots on ONE street, in the capital city of ONE small country. And then they complain that Americans don't know their geography. Not impressed, NBC. I also hate when the newscasters start giving their opinions about things. Okay, I gave the local newscaster a pass when she got very angry and said it made her SICK, when it was a story about a local man who was engaging in horrific behaviors with his infant daughter and broadcasting them on the internet, but otherwise? No. Spare me. I also haven't watched a certain national newscaster since she turned to the camera and invited viewers to go to their website and vote about whether they believe something should be allowed -- and that something is a first amendment right. Quote
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