TV-speak to avoid
Posted on April 7th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Plenty of broadcast journalists fall into traps when it comes to writing scripts, but if you think the audience doesn’t notice, think again. Rob Owen, a TV critic at the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, recently asked people to submit the “most overused TV news phrases.” Viewers had plenty to offer: “It’s not clear” is code for “we just don’t [...]
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