MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." The people of Afghanistan, whether adults or children, are Afghans. For example: Afghans flocked to polling stations nationwide on Saturday, defying a threat ...
FRANCHISE EXPANSION In the years ahead, ABC plans to expand "Good Morning America" to three hours (from 7-10 a.m.) and move the syndicated "Live! With Kelly & Michael" back an hour (to 10 a.m.) ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." When Mrs. B read this sentence, she did a double take. See if you do too. Statesmanship peaked out from behind the curtains. ...
CHANGING WEATHER DirecTV yesterday signed a multi-year agreement with WeatherNation, the brainchild of former WCCO-4-CBS Chief Meteorologist Paul Douglas. WeatherNation originates from a small studio in Excelsior, MN, a southwestern suburb of Minneapolis. Since ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B hopes you wont say or write center around. Its illogical. Think about it. Something cannot center "around" something else. It can ...
NEW YORK GIANT ABCs "Good Morning America," awash in estrogen, needed a shot of testosterone… and it will get it in spades (can we say that?) with the expected injection of former NFL defensive ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Founder and flounder, as verbs, are often confused. Founder literally means to fill with water and sink. ~Four people drowned when the boat ...
GONE, NOT FORGOTTEN Josh Elliotts departure from "Good Morning America" has created the kind of behind-the-scenes drama ABC has previously avoided. Elliott was missing from Mondays show, and the other hosts talked about him ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B hopes that youll write April Fools Day correctly. "Fools" is the plural of "fool." And in this case its possessive, so ...
NO JOSHING Josh Elliott has left ABCs "Good Morning America" for NBC Sports. He reportedly turned down an offer of more than $4 million to remain on televisions top-rated breakfast show. Several sources say ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Majority is an interesting noun. Sometimes it takes a singular verb as in this example: Large majority opposes paying NCAA athletes, Washington Post-ABC ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." The next time you feel bad about using a word that isnt a word, think about this. Mrs. B heard a Barnard College ...
I AM SELF-DEFENSE A deranged woman has been charged with deadly conduct, accused of firing shots Thursday at ABC-owned KTRK-13 in Houston (Market #10). Witnesses say Michelle Burks was outside the stations security fence ...
AEREO MAKES ITS CASE Aereo asked the US Supreme Court yesterday to rule that its service offering local TV station signals on the web is legal, calling itself "the next technological step." In a ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Heres a sentence with a problem. See if you know what it is: A new study shows that one in 10 hospitalized kids ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B shares an email from newswriting coach Merv Block: Here?s the kind of mistake I hear on the air 2, 3, 4 ...
TESTING SECURITY Two CNN employees were arrested Tuesday for trying to sneak into the World Trade Center site to test its security. Photog Connor Boals, 26, and producer Yon Pomrenze, 35, were arrested shortly ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets look at some p-words that sound alike but have such different meanings. First two nouns: piece and peace. A piece is a ...
IN DUMBOS SHADOW Ben Sherwood, the president of ABC News since 2010, will replace Anne Sweeney in Feb. 2015 as president of the Disney/ABC Television Group and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks. Sherwood was ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." One of Mrs. Bs readers sent her this from a March 12 Huffington Post story headlined "Dole Is Conservative, Cruz is Not: On ...
BAD REPORTING Catherine Anaya, the "three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist" at Merediths KPHO-5-CBS in Phoenix (Market #13), apologized Friday for her report from the White House that ignited a Beltway uproar. "I was speaking off ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." As the Surly Editor? just reported, the editors of the AP Stylebook have updated their entries to include a stamp of approval on ...
AMATEUR HOUR Catherine Anaya, a "three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist" at Merediths KPHO-5-CBS in Phoenix (Market #13), stood in front of the White House Wednesday and ignited a Beltway uproar. Anaya, who anchors the evening ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Today is the first day of spring. It actually begins at 12:57 this afternoon, EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). That?s the moment when the ...
GROUNDED IN SEATTLE For now, the city of Seattle (Market #12) is without a news helicopter. The 11-year-old Eurocopter AS350, which crashed on takeoff Tuesday morning, killing photographer Bill Strothman and pilot Gary Pfitzner, ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B needs to do a lesson on comprised versus composed of. Take a look at this sentence from a Washington Post style ...
CHOPPER DOWN A Eurocopter AS350, leased from Helicopters, Inc., crashed at 7:40 a.m. PT Tuesday near the foot of Seattles Space Needle, falling into an uncontrolled dive moments after lifting off from the rooftop ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Heres a rule Mrs. B wants to go over with you today. Use the possessive case of a pronoun and the possessive case ...
Breaking News CHOPPER DOWN Two people were killed and another was critically injured when a news helicopter leased by Sinclairs KOMO-4-ABC in Seattle (Market #12) crashed and burned on takeoff Tuesday morning from the ...
COAST TO COAST Jason Martinez, who has anchored mornings at Post-Newsweeks WPLG-10-ABC in Miami (Market #16) since 2010, tweeted his resignation while on the air Friday. "Im moving back to Los Angeles," he said. ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. And today, St. Patricks Day, honors him. Mrs. B wants you to notice the apostrophe that ...
HARLEM HOVER Brian Wilson was leaving his apartment in New York City on Wednesday when his roommate told him that two buildings at the northwest corner of 116th and Park Avenue in Harlem had ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Today Mrs. B wants you to look at torturous and tortuous. That second "r" in torturous makes the difference in their spellings and ...
MIAMI TAX DODGE The headline would read: Warren Buffett Buys Post-Newsweeks WPLG-10-ABC in Miami (Market #16). But, its a bit more complicated than that. In fact, Buffett?s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to swap 1.6 ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Before we get to todays lesson on the word "none," please take a look at this: A gas leak triggered a large explosion ...
DEMOGRAPHIC COUP If you want to reach the young demographic, you go where they are…which is web TV. So, in an effort to get young and healthy people to sign up for insurance under ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets look at the difference between farther and further. Farther is about physical distance. (It helps that far begins the word.) Mrs. appreciates ...
GUILTY SORTA Kendall Herold, a reporter and fill-in anchor for Scripps flagship WCPO-9-ABC in Cincinnati (Market #35), has parted ways with the station just days after pleading guilty to DUI…sorta. Herold, who lawyered up ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." In response to Mrs. Bs lesson on HIPAA a few weeks ago, an acronym for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, she received ...
DRONABLE OFFENSE A federal judge last week dismissed the case against Raphael Pirker, the first (and only) person the Federal Aviation Administration has tried to penalize for flying a drone commercially. Pirker, 29, a ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Something that causes intense sadness, anguish, or deep distress can be described as gut-wrenching or heartrending. So Mrs. B was surprised that a ...
LEGAL FICTION The toothless and politically obstructed FCC, under increasing pressure from powerful cable companies, yesterday banged a hollow drum, promising to consider tougher guidelines surrounding joint sales agreements and shared services arrangements. The ...
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 9, at 2 a.m. So does daylight-saving time. The ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Before we get to todays lesson, lets be sure you pronounce the Ukrainian peninsula Crimea correctly. Its cry-MEE-uh. A Latino is a male ...
PROTEST RESIGNATION Liz Wahl, a Filipina-Hungarian-American news anchor on the popular state-controlled "Russia Today" network, resigned while on air yesterday at 5 p.m., citing the "ethical and moral challenges" she faces working at RT. ...
SPEARFISHING WITH SAMMY The Weather Channel, ignoring the loss of 20 million DirecTV subscribers, held its upfront presentation for advertisers yesterday in New York and announced plans to expand its prime-time non-fiction documentary programming. ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Astrology and astronomy. Mrs. B wonders if you ever get the two confused. A lot of people do. Astrology is about signs of ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Today is National Grammar Day, established in 2008 by Martha Brockenbrough, founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar. Mrs. B ...
PAID SELFIE Samsung Electronics spent $20 million on advertising during ABCs Academy Awards show Sunday night. But its best investment was the white Samsung Galaxy Note 3 it gave Oscar host Ellen DeGeneres to ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." What a surprise this was to Mrs. B: A couple years ago, you may have only recognized his name if you had an ...
ILLUSTRATIVE MUCK It rained in California. And news media rushed to cover the story. Miguel Almaguer, an "award-winning Hispanic-American journalist" working out of NBC Newss Los Angeles bureau, went to the site of a ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." The Washington Posts Carlos Lozada and his colleagues have compiled a list of "verbal crutches, stock phrases, filler words, clich?s and perpetually misused ...
VILLE REVERSAL Linda Danna, the president and general manager at Gannett Broadcast Service Center Louisville, a Sander Operating Co. ILLC station (aka Gannetts WHAS-11-ABC in Louisville), held a newsroom meeting Thursday to discuss reports ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." HIPAA is an acronym. You can pronounce its initials as a word. The made-up word is "hippa." But youll notice that is not ...
JUST THE FACTS Joshua Eure, who is scheduled to start March 3 as executive news director at Gannetts WHAS-11-ABC in Louisville (Market #48), has accused NewsBlues of "inaccurately" reporting the details of his arrest ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Today Mrs. B invites you to join her for a lesson on in to vs. into. In and to should be written separately ...
TRAGIC ACCIDENT Miles OBrien, the star-crossed science and technology journalist (and former morning news anchor) who was dropped by CNN in Dec. 2008, underwent emergency surgery two weeks ago to amputate his left arm ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B doesnt want to be known for grammar "gotcha." She wants your grammar to make your high school English teacher proud. But ...
DELAYED REACTION Despite repeated warnings from the National Weather Services Melbourne office, the Daytona International Speedway dropped the green flag Sunday on the Daytona 500 and put more than 160,000 race fans at risk. ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B was all caught up in the evil drama of Netflixs "House of Cards" when Congressman Underwood said this: Im trying to ...
WEATHER SCRAMBLE Hoping to dodge the proverbial bullet, NASCAR elected to ignore forecasts of severe weather from the National Weather Service and started Sundays Daytona 500 on schedule. 160,000 fans jammed the Daytona International ...
GUILTY AS CHARGED Charles Leaf, the former investigative reporter at Fox flagship WNYW-5 in New York, was led out of a Hackensack courtroom in handcuffs yesterday after a jury convicted him of sexually assaulting ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lie low means to go into hiding or to keep out of sight. Its an old phrase. Shakespeare used it in the play ...
JUST SPEAK ENGLISH We think, but cannot be entirely certain, that Joshua Eure, the assistant news director at Gannetts KPNX-12-NBC in Phoenix (Market #12), has been named news director at Gannetts WHAS-11-ABC in Louisville ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Our Surly Editor? recently used a primordial form of communication to ask Mrs. B for help in word choice: "Yo, Mrs. B, whats ...
THE DRONE DID IT Pedro Rivera, a "temporary, on-call" photographer at Merediths WFSB-3-CBS in Hartford (Market #30), has sued the Hartford Police Department in US District Court, claiming a police officer demanded his employer ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B heard a couple of Olympics coverage misspeaks shed like to share with you. Unchartered territory should be uncharted territory. Uncharted means ...
TONE-DEAF QUESTIONING In an interview conducted after Bode Miller?s bronze medal Super-G run on Sunday, NBC Olympics reporter Christin Cooper asked him repeatedly about his brother, who died in April of an apparent seizure ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B is delighted with the reinforcement the Olympic Games give to the correct use of podium, the raised platform the winning athletes ...
TRIAL BY ENDURANCE Testimony in the child sex abuse trial of former WNYW-5-Fox investigative reporter Charles Leaf ended late Friday with closing remarks in which the prosecutor impeached the credibility of his own key ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." This sentence in one of the stories you may be reporting today popped up on Mrs. Bs grammar radar: The snake-handling pastors son, ...
GRINDING TRIAL The child sex abuse trial of Charles Leaf, the former investigative reporter at Fox-owned WNYW-5 in New York, is mercifully nearing an end after more than five weeks at the Bergen County ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." A reminder before we celebrate today. The temperatures arent colder. They may be lower, but its the weather that is colder. The formal ...
URGE TO MERGE Comcast is expected to announce on Thursday an agreement to acquire Time Warner Cable for more than $45 billion in stock, a deal that would combine the biggest and second-biggest cable ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Before we get to todays lesson, lets not forget that the plural of state of emergency is states of emergency. Mrs. B answers ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Many people think it sounds better to say "I feel badly" when they feel punk. If youre one of them and youre a ...
OPTIMISTIC DIAGNOSIS NBC News announced yesterday that Tom Brokaw was diagnosed in August with multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting blood cells in the bone marrow. His doctors at the Mayo Clinic are optimistic about ...
THE DUCK TEST Media General/Young Broadcastings KRON-4-MyTV in San Francisco (Market #6) announced yesterday that it will lease third-floor office space from ABC-owned KGO-7 at 900 Front Street, just off the Embarcadero. KRON says ...
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 ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." One of Mrs. Bs photog friends sent her this from UPIs website: World War II-era bomb diffused in Hong Kong HONG KONG, ...
SLIPPERY JUSTICE Do not underestimate the proficiency of Atlanta attorney William "Bubba" Head, "The Nations Leading DUI Attorney." For 452 days, he has represented Amanda Davis, the former primary news anchor at Fox-owned WAGA-5 ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets look at lying and laying on this day of the Sochi Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Lying is the present participle of lie. ...
DEATH BY ALCOHOL Sheila Martines Pina, the former Rhode Island TV personality who co-hosted "PM Magazine" in the 1980s with Matt Lauer on WJAR-10-NBC in Providence (Market #53), was found dead Wednesday morning in ...
MRS. Bs GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets look at the definitions of regime, regiment, and regimen. A regime is a form of government. Syrian regime puts next round of ...
RUSSIAN ROULETTE By all accounts, the small Russian resort town of Sochi isnt ready for the Olympics. Only six of nine media hotels are finished, and work is still underway on the Olympic Village ...
MRS. BS GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." "The number of" takes a singular verb, as in: Mr. Quenzel was careful to mention that the number of women who watch the ...
GUILTY PLEA Dave Savini, the veteran investigative reporter at WBBM-2-CBS in Chicago (Market #3) who was arrested Jan. 4 on two counts of driving under the influence, two counts of endangering the health or ...
MRS. BS GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Reign means to exercise sovereign power or to be predominant or prevalent. Heres an example of that meaning in a headline: Super Bowl ...
SUPER AUDIENCE Super Bowl XLVIII was the most-watched TV event in US history. 111.5 million viewers turned in, up 3 million from last years Super Bowl. The numbers were enormous…a 46.4 rating and a ...
REPREHENSIBLY YOURS NBC-owned WTVJ-6 in Miami (Market #16) aired a story Thursday about the ongoing war of words between Republican Gov. Rick Scott (far left) and former Gov. Charlie Crist, who is seeking the ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." On this eve of the first day of February 2014, Mrs. B hopes you wont forget the "brew" in the second syllable: FE-brew-airy ...
COLD SHOULDER Republican Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal criticized CNNs coverage of the storm that has paralyzed the Atlanta area, saying after a press conference Thursday he wouldnt do an interview until the network apologized. ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Dont you hate it when you use the wrong word or expression and dont realize it until you see it in print later? ...
SALT IN THE WOUNDS The irony is delicious. Just weeks after Atlanta-based The Weather Channel portrayed itself as a "critical life-saving community resource," the city of Atlanta was paralyzed by an "unexpected storm" that ...
OFF THE HOOK Jim Cantore, who has become the de facto spokesman for The Weather Channel, was booked to appear on the Dan Patrick Show this week to talk about weather predictions for Sundays ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Do you have a recurring dream of finding yourself in front of the camera with no script or, worse, no clothes? If so, ...
POACHING BRISTOL Jamie Horowitz, the ESPN hit-maker whose credits include Sports Nation, Olbermann, Numbers Never Lie, and First Take, is close to leaving the network for a senior vice president role on NBC?s "Today" ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Irregardless is a nonword. If youve used it, regardless or irrespective is the word you meant to use. Youll find other words in ...
