Comments on: WATE Follow Up

By: jason

jason — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 03:51:25 +0000

Remember what your mom (or, dad) use to say about bullies? Reporters, especially gotcha style reporters are often bullies at heart. They might not be the kind of people who want to steal your lunch money or bloody your nose, but they are people that get a kick out of beating up on their subjects. And, when they subjects fight back they get whiney. It’s not new behavior. You’ve seen this before.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 02:35:06 +0000

In that case, it’s an odd use of italics, which normally connotes emphasis rather than a quotation. Exception: linguists do often use italics instead of quotes when discussing a word, a prefix, etc.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:47:51 +0000

I quoted her and denoted that with italics. And i was being smarmy. Nothing will be corrected.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 18:18:24 +0000

Irregardless and seperate are wrong. <>iJudgement is debatable, but if you think it is wrong, you should at least fix it in the last sentence of the original post (an assertion by you, not a quote). I'm not sure what your objection is to bi-monthly or inflammable.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:49:56 +0000

Irregardless, i'll just use what my spell checker says is appropriate. I see no need for seperate spellings. I really wish I could fit bi-monthly and inflammable in there.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:38:22 +0000

Xrlq:

Actually, many people (myself included) do drop the ‘e’ in “Acknowledgment,” and my Oxford American Desk Dictionary also lists both as valid. I actually think it’s one of those “adviser/advisor” things, where one (the dropped ‘e’ / “adviser”) is considered the proper way, but the other way has become accepted over time and repeated misuse.

By: Drake

Drake — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 19:14:42 +0000

In general, I find that WATE is a little more responsive to citizen input than their counterparts on WBIR and WVLT. The former is clearly in the pocket of the local government, and the latter has a puffed up Liz Tedone. Ugh.

I know that professional journalists don’t like to be viewed as eye candy, but Ms. Smith and Yvonne Nava are very pretty. Makes listening to what they have to say almost bearable. I believe WATE lowered the boom on John Shumaker and were quite balanced in their coverage of the wheel tax debacle. They really didn’t do an accurate job on the expiration of the ban.

By: countertop

countertop — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:11:53 +0000

I wasn’t joking about her nice smile and am a little upset that she didn’t also point out how fond of her some of your readers are.

By: cube

cube — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:06:21 +0000

it does hurt to read people that disagree with you. It takes a very mature person to calmly read words that are attacking your ideas (which is kind of an extension of your blogself), and respond nicely and with a coherent argument.

that is what bloggers do every day, and this reporter could not keep it up for a few emails, funny huh.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:52:39 +0000

You’ll also notice that was in italics, denoting a quote.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:50:06 +0000

As does mine (MS Word). However, American Heritage Dictionary offers it as a (presumably) acceptable variation, and I presume that most others do, as well.

Note also that you spelled it “judgement” yourself later in the same post, even after having sicced Tears-a over it.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:03:29 +0000

My editor, uhm, spell checker disagrees.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:56:14 +0000

Lordy, after reading all that bawling, I guess the spelling “tears-a” wasn’t a mistake after all. It was right on the money.

FYI, both spellings of judg(e)ment are generally accepted. I prefer to drop the e myself, but not some argue that “judgement” makes more sense, e.g., we don’t drop the e in “acknowledgement.”