LIVE DETENTE The world can relax. Kelly Ripa says shell return to "Live With Kelly and Michael" tomorrow, one week after she was blindsided by news that her co-host, Michael Strahan, would depart in ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Every now and then Mrs. B likes to go over some lists of words and phrases with you that sometimes get lost in ...
GAME OF THRONES In the sometimes indecipherable language of corporate-speak, Fox News is "restructuring its executive ranks" and Jay Wallace is "taking over news and editorial" from Michael Clemente. Translation: Clemente, long considered the ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B appreciates this reminder from a Tampa anchor: Theres a difference between "suffer" and "sustain." A building cannot "suffer" damage. Only people ...
EPIC POWER PLAY The morning after being blindsided by her longtime co-host Michael Strahan, Kelly Ripa was a no-show on Wednesdays episode of "Live! with Kelly and Michael." She wont be at work today, ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." When Mrs. B hears "Well have continuous coverage of this story," she cringes a bit. "Continuous" means uninterrupted. More accurate is: ~Well have ...
KELLY AND ANDERSON? Michael Strahan is leaving "Live with Kelly and Michael" and joining the cast of "Good Morning America" full time in September. A senior ABC source called the Strahan move a "no-brainer." ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B heard from one of her grammar buddies after the lesson on its being ok to put a preposition at the end ...
TEGNAS BUYOUT OFFER Theres been a lot of curiosity from NewsBlues readers about the specifics of Tegnas "generous" voluntary retirement package, now being offered nationwide. While Tegna has been reluctant to openly discuss the ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." This email from one of Mrs. Bs readers at a Cleveland advertising agency inspired todays lesson: Didnt you mention in one of your ...
PERSONNEL MATTERS Citadel Communications-owned WLNE-6-ABC in Providence, RI (Market #52) revealed in a letter Friday that a data breach had compromised personal information for all present and former employees. The station apologized and said ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners and nominated finalists will be announced this afternoon at 3:00 eastern time. Its the centennial, the 100th awarding ...
OFFICIALLY OFFICIAL After 51 years in television news, Ron Magers will retire May 25 as the primary news anchor at top-rated ABC-owned WLS-7 in Chicago (Market #3). Oh, look, its the last day of ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Monday is Patriots Day in Massachusetts and Patriots Day in Maine. IRS offices in those two states will be closed for the legal ...
MORNING GLORY Chris Licht, the former executive producer of MSNBCs "Morning Joe" who left amicably in 2011 to help launch the renovated "CBS This Morning," is leaving the morning show to become the executive ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." To use whether or whether or not. That is todays lesson. Take a look at this example of when you dont need the ...
PETRI DISH BOSS Meet the woman who just accepted what could be one of the toughest challenges in local TV news. Tina Luque, who was let go on her birthday last October after seven ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B appreciates this headline for its correct use of "further": If Detainee Population Shrinks Further, Guantanamo May Have To Close (npr.org, 4-1-16) ...
THE URGE TO MERGE Calkins Media, headquartered in Doylestown, PA (a suburb of Philadelphia), is selling its three television stations to Raycom Media, the employee-owned broadcast company based in Montgomery, Alabama. Calkins will retain ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." As Mrs. B was reading "Front Row Seat at the Circus, One Journalists Journey Through Two Presidential Elections," she came upon this sentence: ...
DEATH OF A FOODIE Stacy Fawcett, who regularly appeared as a contributing "food reporter" on the weekend morning shows at WFAA-8-ABC in Dallas (Market #5), was stabbed to death by her 19-year-old son on ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Youve probably been using the words "aide" and "aides" in your writing. Mrs. B wants to be sure youre spelling them correctly, the ...
LIFE IN THE TRENCHES Russell Bird, a meteorologist for just nine months at KTVZ-21-NBC in Bend, OR (Market #190), was found dead by police in his apartment Tuesday afternoon. He was just 27 and ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B reminds you that theres no such thing as "a phenomena." And theres no such thing as "phenomenas." A phenomenon is a ...
MEGYN LEAVING FOX? Megyn Kellys employment contract with Fox News expires after the election, in 2017. "Have you decided if you?re staying at Fox News?" Variety asked in a cover interview. "I havent," she ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." One of Mrs. Bs anchor friends in Chicago writes: Is "persons" correct when used with a specific number? For example: Two million persons ...
LESTER ON TOP Thirteen months have passed since Lester Holt replaced Brian Williams on the NBC "Nightly News" anchor desk. Holt would have liked to have gotten the job under less wrenching circumstances. "But ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." The Surly Editor? rounded up the household fire extinguishers and took then to town for testing. He texted this to Mrs. B: Irony ...
BOMBS AWAY Donald Trump has inside information that could badly damage Roger Ailes and Fox News, according to a blockbuster article in New York magazine by longtime Ailes chronicler Gabriel Sherman. In 2014, Ailes ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." An email from a Midwest manager inspired todays lesson on when to use "collision" and "crash": We had an accident when a train ...
BAY AREA BLOODBATH As many as 30 full-time staffers were laid off Thursday at KGO-810-AM News/Talk Radio in San Francisco (Market #6) in what Cumulus Radio described as a "restructuring effort." Employees described it ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." "Hone" means to sharpen. For example: ~My previous attempt hadnt produced a book, but it had honed my technique. "Home in on" means ...
OUSTED IN THE BURGH Wendy Bell, a "21-time Emmy? Award winning" news anchor and the acknowledged face of Hearsts WTAE-4-ABC in Pittsburgh (Market #23), was fired yesterday, nearly two weeks after she posted an ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Tomorrow is April Fools Day. Mrs. B hopes that youll write it correctly. "Fools" is the plural of "fool." And in this case ...
THAT J-SCHOOL GUY Someone launched a hilarious Twitter parody account this week celebrating the "Guy at Your J-School," AKA @JschoolStrytllr. Among the early posts…. "Im a story-teller. I tell stories. In some stories, I ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." As a verb, "censure" means to express official disapproval. A Colorado Springs station used it in a headline: Colorado Springs Council Votes to ...
FISHING FOR DOE Matthew Zelkind, who was let go earlier this month after nine years as news director at Media Generals WKRN-2-ABC in Nashville (Market #29), has sued Mike James, the editor of NewsBlues, ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." When Mrs. B read this, she thought it might be fun to look at the word oxymoron: Standing at a lectern flanked by ...
STATION SUED Matthew Zelkind, who was let go earlier this month after nine years as news director at Media Generals WKRN-2-ABC in Nashville (Market #29), has sued the station for his termination. In a ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." An Albuquerque station gets a pat on the back for using the correct word in this headline: Airman?s truck, filled with military mementos, ...
WHO SPIKED THE STORY? Russ Kilgore, who resigned this week after nearly eight years as news director at WINK-11-CBS in Ft. Myers (Market #62), says he was not responsible for spiking a story last ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." An Atlanta publicist and freelance magazine writer, with roots in TV news, rants to Mrs. B about pronouns: The other day a colleague ...
SCRIPPS REVENGE The surprising #DropThePaper campaign in Cincinnati (Market #36), launched by Scripps flagship WCPO-9-ABC against the citys daily morning newspaper, Gannetts Cincinnati Enquirer, is just the latest chapter in a longstanding feud between ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Sometimes people get "conscience" and "conscious" mixed up. Just in case you have ever been one of those people, or might be one ...
CRUMPLED CAMPAIGN Scripps flagship WCPO-9-ABC in Cincinnati (Market #36) has launched a digital news service called "WCPO Insider" ("Only $10 For Your First Year"), and the TV station is urging viewers to #DropThePaper. The ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B knows irregular verbs can be stumpers. Use your dictionary if you arent sure what the past tense or past participle is. ...
LIVE FROM HAVANA All four English-language network affiliates in Miami (Market #16) have set up shop in Havana for the week to cover President Barack Obamas historic first-time visit. And although Cuba is just ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." One advantage of being a Florida transplant is that Mrs. B has learned the correct pronunciations of a couple of cities. She admits ...
GAWKER BODYSLAM In a crushing defeat for Gawker Media, a Florida jury on Friday night awarded $115 million to wrestling legend Hulk Hogan in his invasion of privacy lawsuit. He had asked for $100 ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." The Surly Editor recently used a primordial form of communication to ask Mrs. B for help in word choice: "Yo, Mrs. B, whats ...
THE DONALDS FREE TIME Of all the ways Donald Trump has shocked the political system, one of the most significant is how he wins primary after primary with one of the smallest campaign budgets. ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Were coming up on the weekend when spring begins. The spring equinox will happen at 6:30 Sunday morning, EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). That?s ...
AT WAR WITH MEDIA Donald Trumps penchant for abusing reporters is well known. He disparages them as "dishonest," "troublemakers," and "scum," and sometimes he calls them out by name. At his rallies, he pens ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B wants your grammar to make your high school English teacher proud. But more than that, she wants your viewers and your ...
BIG BOY SURGERY Glenn Burns, the chief meteorologist at Cox Medias WSB-2-ABC in Atlanta (Market #9), underwent heart surgery one week ago, left the hospital yesterday, and is now recovering at home. No word ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets spend our time together today looking at the different meanings of "reign" and "rein." They sound alike, but thats where the similarity ...
ROUGHED UP IN CHICAGO Sopan Deb, a CBS News reporter and producer who has been embedded with the Donald Trump campaign since last summer, was arrested Friday night while covering protests surrounding Trumps canceled ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets be sure you know the difference between imminent and eminent. "Imminent" has two "ms." It begins with a short-"i" sound, as in ...
ANSIN PUSHES BACK Ed Ansin filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Comcast, the parent company of NBC. He says the companys plan to end its 22-year network affiliation with Sunbeams WHDH-7-NBC in Boston (Market ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Remember "spring forward"? Its that time again. DST, daylight saving time, returns Sunday, March 13, at 2 a.m. (The AP Stylebook says no ...
AND THE EMMY? GOES TO Brett Hansen, a production technician and video editor for T.V.W., a public affairs station in Washington State that features independently produced news shows, won an Emmy? last summer for ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B heard from a reader whod like a repeat of the bail and bond lesson. ~A judge set bail at $100,000. And ...
HUMILIATED AND INTIMIDATED Brett Buffington, an "Emmy? award-nominated investigative reporter" at WBRZ-2-ABC in Baton Rouge (Market #93), was arrested last May for "interfering with an officer and intimidating a public official." Buffington went to ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." An anchor in Colorado Springs begins todays lesson: We have had several occasions when our scripts are dealing w/ an organization that has ...
AND THE WINNER ISNT A Nashville jury, swayed by days of tearful testimony and a boneheaded move by a hotel executive, ruled in favor of Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews yesterday and ordered the ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B wants to remind you that there is no such word as "kudo." The word is kudos. Even though it ends in ...
MILLENNIALS OUT FRONT Millennials have a front row seat for this years political circus. "I often get asked by voters if Im writing for the school paper," says reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns, 28, who is ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets look at the difference between convince and persuade. Its subtle, so please concentrate. You convince someone "of" something. For example: ~She convinced ...
AND THE WINNER ISNT A Nashville jury could begin deliberations later today in Erin Andrewss civil lawsuit against the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University. The defense rested its case Thursday after putting two final ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets not forget that a suspect is a specific person who police have named, arrested, charged, or in some way implicated in a ...
BONEHEADED MISSTEP A hotel security expert said Wednesday that Erin Andrewss stalker was solely at fault for secretly recording nude videos of her. Stephen Barth, a professor at the University of Houstons Conrad Hilton ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B hopes as you continue to report on violent storms, youll remember that a funnel cloud becomes a tornado only when it ...
ALTERED REALITY Attorneys for West End Hotel Partners cross-examined Erin Andrews yesterday in Nashville and asked the question on everyones mind: How much was she actually damaged by the peephole video that was posted ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Pundit is one of those words we get from India, like bungalow and thug. It comes from "pandit," meaning scholar or wise teacher. ...
TEARFUL TESTIMONY Erin Andrews took the witness stand yesterday in Nashville and sobbed as she recalled the moment she learned that nude footage of her had been posted on the internet. "I said, No, ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Today is Super Tuesday, a day when the greatest number of states hold primary elections to choose delegates to national conventions. And those ...
CAREER SUICIDE MSNBC has parted ways with host Melissa Harris-Perry after she complained publicly about preemptions of her little-watched weekend show and implied that the networks actions were racially motivated. Harris-Perry, who is black, ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." February 29 usually happens every four years and is called leap day. Its added to the calendar in leap years as a corrective ...
MOURNING NEWS Sam Merrill, the longtime primary news anchor at Merediths WNEM-5-CBS in Flint-Saginaw (Market #71), collapsed at home and died suddenly yesterday of unknown causes. He was 55. "He was a professionals professional," ...
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 ...
NAKED ON THE INTERNET Erin Andrewss father testified in court yesterday. Steve Andrews, the "Emmy? award-winning" "8 On Your Side" senior investigative reporter at Media Generals WFLA-8-NBC in Tampa (Market #11), testified for about ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." When Mrs. B saw this headline, she thought it was time for the cement and concrete lesson: 2 Dead After Car Rams Into ...
CONSPIRATORIAL EXIT Renee Chenault-Fattah, the longtime 4 and 6 p.m. news anchor at NBC-owned WCAU-10-NBC in Philadelphia (Market #4), has parted ways with the station, six months after she was placed on leave following ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B found this in her emailbox: I actually heard an anchor say "anyways" during a transition to a weather reporter. Youre not ...
BLUE RIDGE SHOWDOWN Mount Pisgah is a mountain in the Appalachian Range about 15 miles southwest of Asheville, NC. The mountain is more than a mile high (5,721 feet), and perched at the very ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." To cause the death of any human being by whatever means is a homicide, pronounced HAHM–ih-side. Manslaughter is homicide without malice or premeditation. ...
LOOKING FORWARD On Friday, we told you that NBC was pulling its network affiliation from Nexstar-owned WHAG-25-NBC in Hagerstown, MD (which covers a four-state area that includes Hagerstown; Chambersburg, PA; Martinsburg, WV; Winchester, VA; ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." A news manager in Lake Charles, Louisiana is asking Mrs. B for some clarification: Ive always thought "stable" isnt a condition, but some ...
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT NBC is pulling its affiliation from Nexstar-owned WHAG-25-NBC in Hagerstown, MD (which covers a four-state area that includes Hagerstown; Chambersburg, PA; Martinsburg, WV; Winchester, VA; and portions of the DC ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Before we get started with todays lesson Mrs. B wants to remind you that Justice Antonin Scalia?s body will lie in repose today ...
RECKLESS REPORTING Dr. Michael Black, the South Florida surgeon who was the focus of a CNN story that eventually led to the closure of the pediatric cardiac surgery program at St. Marys Medical Center ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Youre is a contraction for "you are." For example: ~It looks as if youre (you are) not able to complete the project in ...
GUNS AND SPINDLY WEED Tori Shaw, a weekend weather guesser at WPSD-6-NBC in Paducah, KY (Market #82), was arrested yesterday, along with her husband, for growing marijuana in their home. Kentucky State Police got ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." IRS, the abbreviation for Internal Revenue Service, is an initialism. Initialisms cant be pronounced as words. Other initialisms are: FCC (Federal Communications Commission) ...
THE DUFFMAN COMETH Shep Smith yesterday declared war on The Weather Channel and NBC. "The weather is serious, but it is nobodys property," he noted during Mondays afternoon weather segment. "With that in dispute, ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Foreboding is a noun that means a sign of something to come. You can remember because of the first syllable, "fore," which means ...
EXPANSION AND TURMOIL In the 13? months since CBS crossed the street, jumping from Media Generals WISH-8 to Tribunes WTTV-4, a massive sinkhole of local news has opened up in Indianapolis (Market #27). To ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Today is Presidents Day, the third Monday in February. Please note where the apostrophe comes: after the "s." Its a day to honor ...
