Just when you wondered if the AP could get any worse
Bookworm on Sep 21 2009 at 5:37 pm | Filed under: Just Because Music, Media matters
I like Kristin Chenoweth and I suffer from migraines, so this story caught my eye. And then the bad grammar in the second paragraph made my eyes roll:
Meghan Prophet says Chenoweth felt a migraine coming on after winning an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a comedy series and doing press interviews. Prophet says Chenoweth laid down and onsite paramedics checked on the former “Pushing Daisies” actress.
This is truly a media in decline. But here’s a palette cleanser, with Chenoweth doing what she does best:
I like this one too, which shows her extraordinary stylistic range:
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For years education schools at college level have been the places where the dumbest and the densest have gravitated. The kids who go there are attracted by curricula devoid of intellectual rigor, the enticing prospect of the tenure track and the headiness of being paid to impart crap ideology to impressionable children without fear of contra- or inter- diction.
Now it turns out that college journalism schools are also attracting the cerebrally challenged. What galls me is not only their students’ lack of acquaintance with English as she is wrote, but the absence of any sense of history or ability to place events in a context outside of leftist sandboxism.
I am really getting sick of Neanderthals purporting to tell me, a Cro-Magnon, what’s going on. “Ug, big deer, no, umm, uh, bear. No, running dog lackey. . .Uh, saw big thing on ridge. Bad big thing, not like, um, uh, approved big thing. Know what I mean?”
Charles, I have to speak up for certain Cro Magnons who went undercover and slogged through Education curricula (ie, both my brothers, neither of whom make much sense at times, but who never say “um”, “ah”, or “actuate”)
I don’t know anyone who’s gone through journalism school, though. They’re probably everything you say.
Didn’t Sarah Palin go through journalism school.
>>Didn’t Sarah Palin go through journalism school.
That’s one! Unfortunately, so did Christiane Amanpour, so we’re still talking a net negative of intelligence in J-school.
kali:
I used too broad a brush. There are always exceptions to the rule.
But in defense of us Cro Magnons, it was we who invented the broad brush while those brutish Neanderthals were running around with their silly finely pointed, myrtlewood-handled sable brushes tweaking and refining our cave art at Lascaux—without permission!
Presumably the Fox foxes went through J school as well.