Our newscasts regularly describe how American children are not competitive with other countries. This is attributed to inferior education, government policies, bad curricula, parenting, etc. I think they ought to take a look in the mirror first. The grammar, spelling, and logic on display in our TV newscasts, newspapers, etc. from mainstream media are atrocious. Yes, teachers do it, too, but they aren’t paid what NBC and CBS anchors are. You’d think for that kind of money the networks could hire someone who knows how to speak English. It’s no wonder our children don’t measure up when they hear stuff like this every day. The first four I hear constantly from newscasters on all networks. The last few indicate in green who said or wrote that.<\/p>\n
“It’s impossible to understate the importance of diet and exercise.”<\/span> “…said we would not step foot in…”<\/span> “Everyone doesn’t understand how to…”<\/span> “The facts infer…”<\/span> “Dinosaur bones recently found in Argentina are from the largest mammal ever to walk the earth.”<\/span> Lester Holt, NBC<\/span> “Disasters keep coming, one after the next.”<\/span> Local ABC anchor<\/span> “Hiring additional employees will only exasperate the risks.”<\/span> An ex-FBI agent “expert” on cyber security.<\/span> “…kept as a momento…”<\/span> Chelsea Clinton<\/span> Our newscasts regularly describe how American children are not competitive with other countries. This is attributed to inferior education, government policies, bad curricula, parenting, etc. I think they ought to take a look in the mirror first. The grammar, spelling, and logic on display in our TV newscasts, newspapers, etc. from mainstream media are atrocious. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n[“impossible to overstate”]<\/span><\/p>\n
\n[“would not step in…” or “would not set foot in” — step is intransitive, set is transitive]<\/span><\/p>\n
\n[“Not everyone understands how to…” as written it means no one in the world understands]<\/span><\/p>\n
\n[imply, not infer. The listener or reader infers. Facts or speakers imply.]<\/span><\/p>\n
\n[Dinosaurs were not mammals.]<\/span><\/p>\n
\n[“…one after the other.” The word next means it is the one that comes after. ]<\/span><\/p>\n
\n[“exacerbate the risks”. ]<\/span><\/p>\n
\n[“memento” – it’s based on the word “memory”. ]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"