And the nouns are losing.
Was listening to a lengthy piece on NPR the other day. Only toward the very end of the piece did I figure out the newsie must be talking about Ronald Reagan. I often miss the first words of a radio/TV piece, 'cause it takes my built in commercial ignoring ear a few seconds to unmute. The newsie spoke the rest of the entire piece using he, the president, and, then, and similar pronouns and connective words. The piece would have been better had the newsie started more sentences with the subject's name, in this case Ronald Reagan.
This is not uncommon. I listen thru a lot of pieces wondering where it happened, when it happened, who did it, why they did it, and what happened. The classic newman's questions, left totally unanswered.
What do they teach in "journalism" schools?
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