Re: Spell-Check needed at WB

[Garrett Wollman <wollman>]

<<On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 00:11:58 -0400, Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> said:

> Channel 7 is even worse, and they even pronounce the names wrong!!!
> Lately, I've even seen a typo or two at channel 5, which is usually pretty
> accurate.  Perhaps the late night news interns are functionally illiterate???

No, it's worse than that.  People Just Don't Care any more.  Having
someone actually line-edit a script (or a magazine article, or even a
book) costs money, and the corporate interests which control the media
these days would rather spend that money on stock repurchases.

(...And don't get me started at those bogus highway-map backgrounds
the TV weather people put behind their radar animations!)

- -GAWollman

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