BEARLY HARASSED When Gretchen Carlson accused Fox News chief Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, Ailess lawyers accused her of waging a "shameless publicity campaign." Now Fox News appears to be waging its own campaign ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Words with the prefix dis– are easily confused with similar-looking terms starting with mis-. "Disinformation" is a word we dont see very often. ...
WAGONS CIRCLED Kimberly Guilfoyle, who co-hosts "The Five" on Fox News, says her boss, Roger Ailes, has never hit on her. "Nothing inappropriate has ever transpired, nor am I aware of anything inappropriate that ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Just one letter can make such a difference in the meaning of a word. Mrs. B wants you to look at some nouns ...
BILL COSBY OF MEDIA Attorneys for Roger Ailes filed a motion on Friday in federal court asking that Gretchen Carlsons sexual-harassment lawsuit be handled as confidential arbitration, as her employment contract specified. They accused ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." WGN morning anchor Larry Potash asks Mrs. B to talk about a grammar issue you may be wondering about, too: When it comes ...
PERSONAL FIEFDOM In the wake of Gretchen Carlsons sexual harassment suit against Roger Ailes, at least 10 women who once worked at Fox News have come forward with shocking details of how Ailes also ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." A Chattanooga anchor writes: Were having a discussion in our newsroom about causes of death. Which of the following is correct? (1) He ...
BOMBS AWAY Former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson has sued the networks president, Roger Ailes, claiming he fired her after she rebuffed his sexual advances. Carlson said Ailes repeatedly demeaned her with "severe and ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." If youre not sure when to use "into" and "in to," then this lesson is for you. "Into" can indicate direction or motion. ...
CASE DISMISSED Jack Holland, a 23-year-old morning meteorologist at KMVT-11-CBS in Twin Falls, ID (Market #193), who was arrested in January and charged with raping a woman in his apartment after a date, is ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." When to use foot and feet … thats the quandary of an Indianapolis sportscaster. And that makes a worthy subject for Mrs. Bs ...
NBC WHACKS THE HAG Nexstar-owned WHAG-25 in Hagerstown, MD, officially lost its network affiliation at midnight Friday. The station, which covers a four-state area that includes Chambersburg, PA; Martinsburg, WV; Winchester, VA; and portions ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Last month Canadas Liberal-controlled House of Commons voted to change the English version of "O Canada," the countrys national anthem, to make the ...
WITHOUT GRACE Nancy Grace, the polarizing television personality who for more than a decade used her platform on CNNs HLN to aggressively cover tabloid crime stories, will leave the network in October. She broke ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B reminds you to choose the correct word when it comes to flout and flaunt. Flout (rhymes with "pout") means to disregard ...
ALARMIST REPORTING On the 4th of July weekend, tens of thousands of Atlanta residents typically head down to the Florida Panhandle beaches, fueling the local economy. But Wednesday, during the 4 p.m. newscast on ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." When Mrs. B heard this, her grammar radar activated and she sprang into action: Us reporters do all the heavy lifting. That "us" ...
RAINBOW BABY Krystin Sorich, the former Miss Southern Arizona USA who met her future husband, news reporter Som Lisaius, when she was an intern, in 2012, at Raycoms KOLD-13-CBS in Tucson (Market #70), had ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." We hear it all the time: "theres a lot of." But sometimes it should be "therere a lot of." How do you know ...
MOM AND DAD Som Lisaius, a longtime news and crime reporter for Raycoms KOLD-13-CBS in Tucson (Market #70), was let go yesterday, hours after he and his wife, former KGUN-9-ABC reporter Krystin Sorich Lisaius, ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Former and formal dont sound that much alike, but their -ly versions do. Mrs. B wants to be sure you know the difference. ...
ONE-MAN BAND A.J. Clemente, whose career as a local TV news anchor lasted all of one weekend newscast at KFYR-5-NBC in Bismarck, ND (Market #139), has been hired as a multi-media journalist at low-power ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." A technical editor in North Carolina wrote to Mrs. B with something important to think about: I always get a twinge when I ...
SUING O-TOWN Nearly two dozen media organizations filed a lawsuit Thursday against the City of Orlando, asking for the release of phone recordings on the night of the massacre at Pulse nightclub. "There is ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." When Mrs. B hears a describer word used before an absolute, she grimaces. For example: very unique very favorite most perfect very final ...
PANTS ON FIRE There was a moment yesterday that must have sent a jolt of panic through the NBC control room. Brian Williams was anchoring MSNBCs coverage of a Donald Trump campaign speech, in ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B wants you to look at two sets of words that are often confused and misused. To indicate something indirectly is to ...
GUILTY AS CHARGED US Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), one of the regions longest-serving members of Congress, was convicted Tuesday of federal racketeering and bribery charges. He is most likely headed to prison. Sentencing ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets look at a few words that are often mispronounced even by network anchors and reporters. The correct way to pronounce intravenous is ...
REVERSE DISCRIMINATION Wendy Bell, the "21-time Emmy? Award winning" ex-news anchor who was fired in April as the face of Hearsts WTAE-4-ABC in Pittsburgh (Market #23), filed a federal lawsuit Monday, accusing her former ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." The words "really" and "very" are fillers. Today Mrs. B tosses out some more words you dont need. The first comes from a ...
BALLOON BOY HOAX Theresa Collington, the director of digital content and operations for the past five years at WTSP-10-CBS in Tampa (Market #11), who claims to oversee website content at 49 Tegna-owned TV stations, ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Homonyms are words that have the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings. Bear is one of them. The verb ...
TRUMP NEWS NETWORK Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has "discussed the possibility of launching a mini-media conglomerate outside of his existing TV-production business, Trump Productions LLC." Translation: Trump wants his own cable news ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Even though we honor all fathers Sunday, Fathers Day is a singular possessive, like Mothers Day. Mrs. Bs father was a preacher, who ...
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT As the national news media descended on Florida this week, Anderson Coopers raw, activist-style reporting has stood out. He staged his own prime-time vigil on CNN Monday, reciting a list ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Today lets look at, and think about, some of the issues you might encounter with transgender reporting. Mrs. Bs source is the National ...
PUNISHER IN CHIEF What triggered Donald Trumps precipitous decision to revoke the press credentials for the "phony and dishonest" Washington Post? On Mondays "Fox & Friends," in a live phoner, Trump incoherently railed against ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." After Mrs. Bs "incidents and incidence" lesson yesterday, one of her fellow grammar enthusiasts suggested she remind you that residents are people and ...
MEDIA NAME GAME As network, cable, and local news media continue to feast on the remains of Pulse, few have questioned the medias ongoing smotherage…which will surely spawn a generation of disenfranchised copycats, eager ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." An incident is an event. Its plural is incidents. Incidence, on the other hand, means rate of occurrence. For example: ~The incidence of ...
DEVELOPING CONFUSION Newsies in Orlando (Market #19) awoke Sunday morning to a major national news story on their doorstep and, with images of Emmys? and Egbert Roscoes dancing in their heads, went wall-to-wall with ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets remember the difference between half-staff and "half-mast" as we talk about flags being lowered to honor victims of the Orlando nightclub shootings. ...
BATSHIT CRAZY MSNBCs Joe Scarborough admits hes friends with Donald Trump, but its not much of a friendship. "Ive known him for 10, 11, 12 years, and were friends, but currently hes angry with ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." When Mrs. B heard the following, she was inspired to do a lesson on the form of a verb called subjunctive: Tens of ...
ONE STEP CLOSER Shareholders of Nexstar Broadcasting and Media General, in separate meetings yesterday, approved the merger of the two companies, which must still be approved by the feds. The $4.6 billion deal is ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Stats show that June is still the most popular month to get married. So lets review some marriage-related words, both their meanings and ...
FAILED EXPERIMENT Two and a half years ago, Rich Graziano, the general manager at Tribune-owned WTIC-61-Fox and WCCT-20-CW in Hartford (Market #30) and the president and CEO of The Hartford Courant, was promoted to ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Heres one for you that might come in handy. Actually two, thanks to this note to Mrs. B: What is the correct way ...
KING OF CONTENT "Its time to stop calling Donald J. Trumps presidential operation the Trump campaign," writes Jim Rutenberg in the New York Times. "It would be far more accurate to call it Trump ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B appreciates the New York Timess correct use of masterly: Mr. Trump has shown himself to be a masterly communicator, and his ...
MEMORIES OF THE KING Everyone has a Muhammad Ali story. Your Surly Editor? has more than a few. As the sports guy at the big station in Louisville in the early 1970s, I was ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B shares an email from one of her readers: Good Morning! If you havent done this before, perhaps you could enlighten your ...
NOODLES AND PORK Sipping a beer and wearing a crisp white shirt with the sleeves rolled up, President Obama dined with CNNs Anthony Bourdain in Hanoi this week for a future episode of "Parts ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Monday, May 30, is Memorial Day, Mrs. B shares email from an assignments manager in North Dakota: Do we "celebrate" Memorial Day? Also, ...
MANUFACTURED DRAMA And the winner of season 22 of ABCs "Dancing With the Stars" is….not ABCs Ginger Zee. She and Valentin Chmerkovskiy did a fusion dance of the foxtrot and Argentine tango to Pinks ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Anniversary means returning yearly. So "10-year anniversary" is redundant, as in this Washington Post headline: The day that my life changed: Woman marks ...
DANCING WITH THE PAIN Ignoring a painful pelvic injury, ABC Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee wowed the judges on Mondays part one of ABCs "Dancing with the Stars" finale. She performed twice, finishing with 58 ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B ends her fractured phrases series today. She hopes its been fun for you, too. Heres the last list. bullet-ridden, instead of ...
PARACHUTING OUT Now that Charter Communications has acquired cable giant Time Warner, a waiting game has started to see how many of the 9,000 Time Warner jobs in New York will survive the merger. ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Heres a fine example of why grammar matters. Its a statement by the Texas Republican Party: Homosexuality is a chosen behavior that is ...
INTREPID STORYTELLER One week after his retirement as the longest-serving correspondent on "60 Minutes," Morley Safer died of pneumonia Thursday. He was 84 and had been in declining health. Safer joined the show in ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." It takes two to tango. Have you heard that phrase? It comes from a song in the 1950s used for most anything that ...
ALCOHOLIC RESURRECTION Amanda Davis, the former primary news anchor at Fox-owned WAGA-5 in Atlanta who was arrested three times in three years for DUI and is now on probation, returned Wednesday night for the ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B heard from several of her readers suggesting more fractured phrases. So well continue the series with todays list: play it by ...
HAPPILY EVER AFTER Donald Trump, in an extensive interview with Megyn Kelly last night on Fox prime time, responded to critics of his barbed campaign style by saying he never would have been successful ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." A jamb is the vertical part of the frame of a door or window. Mrs. B hopes you wont confuse it with the ...
UNSENTIMENTAL MARKETPLACE Sunbeams WHDH-7-NBC in Boston (Market #8) lost its bid to hang onto its NBC affiliation yesterday when a federal judge tossed out the stations lawsuit against Comcast, saying Sunbeam fell victim to ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Another day, another list of fractured phrases. Mrs. B is not advocating your using any of these phrases, but if you do use ...
CUE THE BIG SHOW Barbara Walters is retired, Oprah Winfrey is running a network, and Megyn Kelly sees an opening. "Its there for the taking right now," she tells The New York Times. "Those ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B resumes her fractured phrases (or "butchered phrases," as one of her readers calls them) series. Could this be the highlight of ...
END OF AN ERA Morley Safer, the longest-serving correspondent on "60 Minutes," will step down this week and will be celebrated Sunday with an hour-long primetime special. Safer joined the show in 1970, just ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Look at this sentence from an article MSNBCs Joe Scarborough wrote for the Washington Post: But the scattershot approach Trump employed this weekend ...
BROKEN HEART Dana Tyler, the veteran 6 p.m. news anchor at WCBS-2 in New York, has been off the air for more than three months, and the station has offered no explanation for her ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." The 69th annual Cannes Film Festival begins today in Cannes, in the South of France, and Mrs. B hopes youll pronounce it "can" with ...
DANCING DIVA Another flawless performance by ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee and her pro partner Val Chmerkovskiy, earned her a second perfect score from the judges Monday on ABCs "Dancing with the Stars." ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Drowned means suffocated in water. So "drowned to death" is redundant. ~The truck crashed through the bridge railing, and the driver drowned. (not ...
MEDIA MASTERY "TV news anchors and talk show hosts have embarrassed themselves so often in covering Donald Trump that I stopped counting," says Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik. But, when NBCs "Nightly News" ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B offers an addendum to the Mothers Day lesson. Anna Jarvis, the West Virginia woman who started the idea of the holiday ...
BROKEN NEWS ABCs "No World News Tonight," which continues to irritate with its unnatural time-shifting, distorted urgency, and overuse of "ing" and "happening now," appears on track to set a new record for misuse ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mothers Day is coming up Sunday and Fathers Day next month. Mrs. B wants you to notice the possessive of these two holidays ...
PHILANDERING CORRESPONDENT Ed Henry, the White House correspondent for the past five years at Fox News, is "taking some time off to work things out," after supermarket tabloid Touch Weekly revealed his 10-month affair ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Today is Cinco de Mayo. That means "fifth of May" in Spanish and commemorates the victory of the Mexican army over the French ...
PRINCELY F-BOMBS It was widely reported this week that Dan Phillips, a sports anchor and reporter for nearly a decade at Sinclairs WZTV-17-Fox in Nashville (Market #29), was fired Friday for doing a four-minute ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets get our terms right as we report on graduation speeches. The podium is the raised platform the speaker steps up onto. Think ...
GINGER PERFECTION Ginger Zee, the chief meteorologist at ABCs "Good Morning America," got the first perfect score of the season on ABCs "Dancing With the Stars" Monday with a heartfelt performance to Whitney Houstons ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." In this season of graduation, Mrs. B notes that the AP Stylebook recommends capitalizing academic degrees: Master of Science Master of Arts Bachelor ...
BOMBS AND SCUFFLES President Obama crushed his final White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday in DC. He skillfully poked fun at Hillary Clinton, jabbed the Republican presidential candidates, and took a swipe at Jake Tapper, ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B hopes you wont leave out the "from" when graduating. For example: More people are turning toward a career in nursing with ...
CANDY AND WIRE A man in an animal costume, wearing a surgical mask and sunglasses, was shot by police Thursday at Sinclair flagship WBFF-45-Fox in Baltimore (Market #24) after threatening to blow himself up ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Here we go with more of those phrases we sometimes garble. First the incorrect phrase in italics and then the correct one: darkest ...
SOMEDAY, SOMEHOW If finding a new partner for Kelly Ripa on her daytime talk show is anything like the process that led to Michael Strahans hiring, it wont be quick. "Live!" went through nine ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets look at another list of fractured phrases just to be sure youre not using one of them. The correct phrases are in ...
SPLIT DECISION Kelly Ripa returned Tuesday to ABCs "Live! With Kelly and Michael" and, depending on whos telling the tale, either (1) delivered a "pitch-perfect" explanation of her one-week absence or (2) teetered near ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." It can be embarrassing to find out youve been saying a phrase wrong. So take a minute to check todays list of fractured ...
PEEPHOLE PAYOFF Just hours before a Nashville judge was to have ruled on a motion by Erin Andrewss attorneys to put the West End Hotel Partners and Windsor Capital Group on the hook for ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets be sure these often-heard phrases come out the way you want them to. Those in italics, on the left, are the misspeaks. ...
