I can’t observe the woeful dimunition of East Side language skills, based on a higher collective norm in the United Snakes of America without noting, to my profound regret the pathetic parallel on WRSP Fox Channel 55’s 9:00 pm news Sunday night.
It was a syndicate-fed story about how presidential hopefuls stayed off the campaign trail in the days right after the tragic Virginia Tech murders. I say Virginia Tech murders because I can spell Virginia Tech. The story was nicely reported until the Channel 55 editor missed his cue to pot down the volume for the final two sentences. The first of the sentences featured the voice of the reporter saying words to the effect, “How the campaign will intensify this weekend will be known . . . .” fast fade out. The botched production spared viewers from the final sentence which would have been something like, “Reporting from New Hampshire for ABC News this is Lucy Duc.”
It also revealed that the story had been produced probably Thursday, but not aired on Channel 55 until Sunday night!
If this finger-fornicating news on the cheap riles you, welcome to the fripping club! Until Fox affiliates hire producers who understand what NEWS means (not to be confused with two-day old HISTORY), I’m not going to sully my eyes with the immaculately coiffed, talking heads on Fox, rhymes with Sux TV from the Channel 20 studio. I will spend more time with NBC, the State Journal-Register, Illinois Times (of COURSE) and PBS. I hope you will do the same.
I even hope those who don’t have a clue or a care for this rant will learn to do the same.
Thanks for reading this.
Live long . . . . . . and proper.
