Tag: Media
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Please stop interrup —
Photo by David Clode on Unsplash The fierce urgency of [unintelligible] My mother often interrupted me while I was talking to tell me not to interrupt others while they were talking. Once I boldly responded that she had, in fact, interrupted me to tell me that. But only once, because my mother was not to be…
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Now See Hear
Photo by kyle smith on Unsplash Newsreaders are losing their senses If the content of the news weren’t crazy enough to keep me away from the nightly media scatshow, the failing language skills of the commentators is. They’ve forgotten the meanings of simple verbs like “listen” and “look.” “Take a listen” This is wrong. We can “take a…
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