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Mon Sep-19-05 10:19 PM
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This has to win the award for most illiterate journalist ever |
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Read this fucking shit. I've never seen anything this poorly written - no, not merely poorly, utterly ignorant and illiterate - in a "professional" publication. http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=3869209
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Mon Sep-19-05 10:22 PM
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Mon Sep-19-05 10:25 PM
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Mon Sep-19-05 10:22 PM
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2. I have a fourth grader who writes better than that |
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Her spelling may be off, but her sentence structure is sound.
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Mon Sep-19-05 10:28 PM
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6. I don't doubt it - I'm curious if the woman in the picture is the "writer" |
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of this piece of shit (which I assume), or the woman mentioned in the article.
I would bet money this is the picture of the "eye candy" they bought to put on the TV segment, who can't write for shit because she spent her high school years leading the cheerleading squad and blowing the football team in the locker room, and spent her college years cheerleading and blowing the football and the basketball team in the locker room as part of her "duties" as a "journalist" on the school newspaper.
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Mon Sep-19-05 10:27 PM
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4. She doesn't believe in punctuation, except for maybe an occasional |
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period at the end of a run-on sentence or fragment. :)
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Mon Sep-19-05 10:27 PM
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5. No argument here....wow. |
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Tue Sep-20-05 06:45 AM
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7. Pretty impressive, ain't it? |
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:wow:
I think this is worth a kick, since it's the first thing I thought of this morning when I woke up, "That awfully written article".
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Tue Sep-20-05 07:41 AM
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8. It's like they took what she read over the air and transcribed it. |
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On the San Antonio News (KENS) they had a graphic to go along with their coverage of Hurricane Rita. It read, "Prepared For The Worse". I weep for this nation sometimes.
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Tue Sep-20-05 07:46 AM
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Are not known for their writing skills.
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Tue Sep-20-05 07:52 AM
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10. Television news, not journalism. |
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By definition, a "journalist" is one who writes, as opposed to a mere "reporter", which is what TV news people are. Bottom 25% of your class at J-school? Look good in a suit? Able to read things that range from utter drivel to reports of horrifying atrocities from a script while maintaining a fixed expression of idiotic good cheer? Then a career in television news with a local network affiliate is probably for you.
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Tue Sep-20-05 07:56 AM
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11. My nine year old does better than that. |
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