WELCOME BACK KIM WONDERLEY, KCBS TRAFFIC ANCHOR in the morning.*KCBS this morning: devoted ten minutes to another small earthquake in the Oakland hills. Was it necessary? There's literally hundreds of quakes everyday near this Hayward fault, most not as big these but at 3.4-3.5 magnitudes, what's the big fuss? There was no property damage and no one was hurt.
*Reporter Holly Quan was at Hiller Highlands asking questions, mostly inane and getting inane answers, especially one guy who said he "felt a pop and 'someone told me it was an earthquake." I'm delighted the man has a nervous system and a pulse too.
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*Then there's Stan Bunger and his quest to be a weatherman and anchor.
Bunger's continuing droning on and on and on extemporaneously about weather conditions after the usual weather report are now bordering on the extreme. It's not only highly unprofessional it's downright weird and annoying too.
Bunger's latest ad-lib was to tell KCBS listeners about a radar line from the Central Valley to the coast "indicating lots of rain cells to come down." That was this Thursday morning and it made absolutely no sense because almost all PROFESSIONAL forecasters told us repeatedly that we faced more showers and thundershowers even when the front passed through last night and early Thursday morning. Bunger was telling us something we already knew and he does this mini-weather act that he thinks is cool. It's not. It's ego and arrogance is what it is, something that Bunger has taken into the sunset years of his broadcast career.
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Meanwhile, on ABC7 this morning Alexis Smith, reporting on the explosion in Lyon, called it "Lion" instead of "Leeown". Really?
ReplyDeleteYes, Really.
DeleteShe is just an All-American girl who has not been to France.
DeleteThe Bay Area loves to speculate about the next 'Big One'. The Hayward fault is long overdue, so any East Bay quake activity gets an inordinate amount of attention.
ReplyDeleteMispronunciations by reporters and anchors has become the norm because so many of them are not from this area, or in Smith's case, just not qualified for the job. Lyon/Lion is an embarrassment that Ms. Smith should be ashamed of.
ReplyDeleteNewspapers are just as bad, with clueless copy editors allowing errors to get through when an "avenue" is called a "boulevard" or a "street" is called an "avenue" by unfamiliar writers.
The 21st century has thus far been all about sloppiness and the lack of attention to detail in every aspect of the human experience.
Your first graph needs a correction. Should be "have become." Plural subject needs a plural verb. Attention to detail.
DeleteFirst "graph?" Alrighty then. You come off as quite the authority with that.
DeleteAnd not really. The entire term "mispronunciations by reporters" can be interchanged with "this problem" which therefore makes it singular, requiring "has" as opposed to "have," but by all means issue another botched correction if I'm wrong.
Do some remedial diagramming.
When I hear or see these errors, I ask myself "Do I know what they meant?" Usually the answer is, "Yes." so I don't consider it a travesty.
DeleteI love the Lexus billboard that used to run up here in NorCal that showed one of their sports cars and read, "Too fast for the 101." :-D
DeleteGood catch sir or madam...
Delete1:08...It's called "social decay," it's a slow growing tumor. Some tumors are found too late!! Not so you say?
DeleteBecause of high rates of obesity, drug use, criminal records and failing grades on the Army aptitude tests, only 29% of those 17 to 24 are eligible to serve in the Army!!
Good job America. Stand up, take a bow and pat yourself on the back, you deserve it.
Okay, 7:16, here's some remedial diagramming for you: Your subject is "mispronunciations," a plural noun. It's modified by the prepositional phrase, "by reporters and anchors," two more nouns which are plural. (Usually an "s" denotes plural words.) So, your plural subject required a plural verb. Your specious attempt at claiming a singular subject makes you sound more oily and illogical than Rudy Giuliani on cable news.
DeleteAs for "graph," it's a well-known abbreviation for "paragraph" commonly used by writers. That's probably why it threw you. May I suggest Strunk & White?
You have to be lyin'.
ReplyDeleteI've lived in SF for 25-years. I've NEVER heard people call it
ReplyDeletelee-YONE. We all say "Lion."
But then again, I'm not Gay, into theater/the arts, White wine, tofu, or a Liberal.
you could live in SF for 100 years and stills say it wrong. What has that got to do with the price of eggs in Denmark?
DeleteShe wasn't referring to the street, was she?
Delete4:18, you're also apparently not into reading, knowledge, basic world information or common decency.
DeleteLOL
DeleteHa Ha... Lots of rain cells to come down... nothing more aggravating than non weather people trying to forecast or talk about the weather. I once heard a non weather guy talk about "high pressure fronts." Good grief... please stick to reporting the news and leave the weather for your on air weather people, who are way more qualified to talk about it.
ReplyDeletethe reporter on the street thing needs to get a rest...heather the penguin was doing it on kgo, asking absurd questions and getting even more absurd answers, now you only hear her grinding voice doing the traffic
ReplyDeleteYup. Bunger's weather elaborations are becoming pontifications.
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