NEWS CONTAINMENT Shortly after Fox shifted its coverage of the 52nd Annual Rolex 24 at Daytona from Fox Network to Fox Sports 2 on Saturday, a horrific crash stunned viewers and brought the race ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Going forward, Mrs. B is going forward with her campaign to bury an even more annoying space-filler than "so" at the beginning of ...
SIGNAL LOST David Kenny, the tone-deaf CEO of the Weather Co., wants you to call Congress and demand that The Weather Channel be returned to DirecTV. He says its a matter of national safety. ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Ukraine (you-CRANE) is in the news a lot and is likely to continue to be. Please do not precede it with a "the." ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES 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) ...
SINCLAIR STALLED FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has put a hold on station sale applications that include shared services or joint sales agreements, the so-called "sidecar deals" that allow broadcasters to use thinly veiled front ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B tripped over this story by an entertainment reporter: You wanna know whats weirder? This sentence youre about to read: Jackass Presents: ...
WX CHANNEL ANUS The Weather Channel has bought full-page ads in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and todays Wall Street Journal with an open letter from David Kenny, TWCs ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." A Central Florida newsie writes: Pled, Plead, Pleaded? We had a story tonight using "pleaded," and I thought that "pled" would have sufficed ...
HIGH ROAD TAKEN Gannett?s KSDK-5-NBC in St. Louis (Market #21) led its 10 p.m. newscast Sunday with an apology for missteps it made in reporting an undercover story about school security that prompted the ...
MORONIC MANAGEMENT In June, Moodys Investors Service and Standard & Poors both lowered the debt ratings on The Weather Channel after the company announced it would borrow $600 million to pay a "special dividend" ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about a dream at the 1963 March on Washington. It was a dream of equality, ...
BARGAIN WEATHER WeatherNation, which has replaced The Weather Channel on DirecTV, is built on "smoke and mirrors," according to a well-known national TV meteorologist. The company, the brainchild of former WCCO-4-CBS Chief Meteorologist Paul ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." One of Mrs. Bs faithful readers, a St. Peters University professor, wrote how distressed he was about a New York Times headline last ...
LIFE-SAVING RESOURCE Color us amused by the re-education of Jim Cantore. The muscle-bound follicle-challenged storm-chasing pushup-pumping hard-traveling meteorologist has been front and center in The Weather Channels public war against DirecTV. He has been ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B heard from several readers who were dismayed by the grammar gaffe of CNNs Jeff Zucker when he talked about his goal ...
OBLIVIOUS IN NORFOLK They met on a beach in the Bahamas in 2006 and dated on and off for years. He, a suave Canadian with Greek roots. She, a bubbly television news anchor. By ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Heres a sentence from Washington Post story that inspired Mrs. B to talk about the difference between anxious and eager: Residents are anxious ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Time for a lesson on the irregular verb cast, as in cast a vote or cast a fishing line. ~He casts his vote ...
STORMY WEATHER The Weather Channel is no longer available to DirecTV subscribers. "This is unprecedented for The Weather Channel. In our 32 years, we have never had a significant disruption due to a failure ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Before we get to todays lesson, lets be sure you pronounce potable correctly, since you may be using the word today that means ...
HYPERBOLE STORM The Weather Channels retransmission consent deal with DirecTV expires at midnight, and the two sides launched a public war of words over the weekend. The Weather Channel posted a website with a ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B was surprised to see a New York Times article with such a bothersome redundancy: New revelations from retired N.F.L. players who ...
PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT There was another stunning turn of events yesterday in the trial of Charles Leaf, a former investigative reporter for Fox flagship WNYW-5 in New York. He is accused of sexually abusing a ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B hopes youll pay close attention to your pronunciation of these words. mastectomy: muh-STEK-tuh-mee, not muh-SEK-tuh-mee (Dont leave out the first "t.") ...
CHECKING FACTS Two weeks before its official release, Gabriel Shermans takedown of Roger Ailes, "The Loudest Voice in the Room," has already been leaked to New York Magazine and The New York Times. "Attacking ...
SHOCKING TURN Charles Leaf, a former investigative reporter for Fox flagship WNYW-5 in New York, sexually abused a 4-year-old girl three years ago, touching her private parts and instructing her to touch him until ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B continues the series on some of the most common mispronunciations. jewelry: JEW-el-ry, not JEW-el-er-y. (It has just three syllables not four.) ...
CABLE MATRIARCHY? Rachel Maddow "is part of the new matriarchy running NBC News behind the scenes," claims the National Review in a scathing summary of the cable networks recent "master class in political incorrectness" ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets get started on another list of often-mispronounced words. dilate: DIE-LATE, not DIE-uh-LATE (Its a two-syllable word.) drowned: DROWND, not DROWNDED (Its a ...
NO PHOTOS PLEASE Dave Savini, a veteran investigative reporter at WBBM-2-CBS in Chicago (Market #3), was arrested early Saturday morning in Naperville, a Chicago suburb, and charged with driving under the influence, battery, misdemeanor ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B wants to spend her time with you this week on mispronunciations. The word mispronunciation does not have "pronounce" in it, so ...
THRILLED AND HONORED In a surprising move, Bob Longo, the news director at Hearsts second-place WESH-2-NBC in Orlando (Market #18), has resigned to become news director at Cox-owned WAWS-30-Fox and WTEV-47-CBS in Jacksonville (Market ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." When it comes to the days of the week, Mrs. B hopes youll "day" not "dee": MON-day TUES-day WENS-day (for Wednesday) THURS-day FRI-day ...
RED ALERT WDIV-4-NBC in Detroit (Market #11) aired a live pre-game show before yesterdays NHL Winter Classic in Ann Arbor between the Detroit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs…and, as often happens with ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets talk today about the difference between persuade and convince and the rules for when to use each. You persuade someone to do ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Its New Years Eve. The apostrophe goes before the "s" because the day belongs to only one year. And since you may be ...
DEADLINE EXTENDED The Weather Channels satellite carriage deal with DirecTV expires tonight at midnight. Or maybe not. NewsBlues has learned that the two sides have quietly agreed to an extension and will continue to ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." On this last Monday in 2013, lets look at the difference between premier and premiere. A premier (without the "e" on the end) ...
NO CANTORE STORIES The Weather Channels satellite carriage deal with DirecTV expires tomorrow night at midnight. Two weeks ago, on Dec. 16, DirecTV quietly added "WeatherNation" to channel 361, right next to its "Weather ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets spend our time together today looking at some more words that sound alike but have different meanings. Apprise means to inform. For ...
ISLE OF NIGHTMARES Sunbeams WSVN-7-Fox in Miami (Market #16) sits on a man-made six-acre peninsula in Biscayne Bay, bordered on two sides by water. It shares the peninsula with an empty commercial building that ...
BUYING LOCALLY Just 72 hours after the FCC approved the $2.2 billion merger of Gannett and Belo, creating one of the nations most powerful TV ownership groups, Gannett and Sander Media LLC agreed to ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." We see Xmas on signs and in ads, and some of us arent bothered by this abbreviation for Christmas. Others are. If youve ...
THE URGE TO MERGE The FCC on Friday approved the $2.2 billion merger of Gannett and Belo, creating one of the nations most powerful TV ownership groups, reaching a third of the nations households. ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." First some seasonal reminders, and then well get to the grammar. Kwanzaa begins Thursday, December 26th. Its a 7-day celebration that honors Americans ...
TWO AND OUT "Katie," the daytime talk show that was given every chance to succeed, in the end, did not. ABC announced yesterday the show will not return for season three. Production will continue ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Winter officially begins Saturday afternoon with the winter solstice at 12:11 p.m. (EST). Thats when the earth tilts the Northern Hemisphere farthest away ...
ZUCKERS CHUTZPAH Jeff Zuckers grand dream of rebranding CNN as an entertainment network apparently involves Jay Leno, who will be unemployed in February when Jimmy Fallon takes over the "Tonight Show" on NBC. According ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." All right is two words; "alright" is non-standard. But Mrs. B wants you to take a look at these "a"-words that work both ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." If Mrs. B hadnt checked under the hood, she might have driven off with the kitten nestled on the engine. See how that ...
VIRALLY UNEMPLOYED Justin Kraemer, a reporter and weekend anchor for the past five years at KSNW-3-NBC in Wichita (Market #67), was fired Monday morning. News Director Denise Killian told him "it would be best ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B heard this on the radio on her drive home earlier this week: You just named three of the most scariest things. ...
OUTTA HERE Were still waiting to hear back from Denise Killian, the snippy news director at KSNW-3-NBC in Wichita (Market #67). We wanted to know what action, if any, she planned to take against ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets look at four sets of words that look or sound alike but have meanings that are nothing alike. Well begin with a ...
BRAZENLY MURKY Susanna Negovan, the editor of "Splash," a celebrity supplement in the Chicago Sun-Times, is also a daily contributor to WFLD-32-Foxs breakfast show "Good Day Chicago." Shes married to Tom Negovan, a reporter ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Please note this new entry in the AP Stylebook online: death, die: Dont use euphemisms like passed on or passed away except in ...
LOCAL NEWS? The FCC yesterday approved the sale of three California TV stations. The News-Press & Gazette Company now owns KION-46-CBS and KMUV-23-Telemundo in Salinas (Market #125) and KKFX-11-Fox in Santa Maria (Market #123). ...
ROCKY MOUNTAIN MONOPOLY We told you yesterday of Gray Televisions slick sidecar deal to use KKCO-11-NBC in Grand Junction, CO (Market #185) to run Excalibur Broadcastings KJCT-8-ABC. We neglected to tell you that Gray ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets begin todays lesson with a quick assignment. Google "first discovered." Go ahead. Did you see this one? The snails were first discovered ...
CORPORATE WELFARE Last week, when blondiful Sam Champion announced he was leaving ABC?s top-rated "Good Morning America" for The Weather Channel, the always reliable TMZ.com (wink, wink) reported that Champion "was pulling in around ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Return back is one of those redundancies we hear often in sports and weather reporting, but sometimes it finds its way into news ...
COMPLICIT JUGGERNAUT Eight days remain until the theatrical release of "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues," and the marketing juggernaut continues. In an online "Funny Or Die" video, "Veteran CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B solicited redundancies, and she got what she asked for. See if you can spot the first redundancy: The local authorities in ...
DERAILED SIDECARS Sinclairs $985 million deal to buy Allbrittons seven ABC affiliates has hit a snag. In a letter late Friday, the FCC Media Bureau told Sinclair it must amend the deal and drop ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B knows when she offers a redundancies series, she will get lots of suggestions. Heres the first batch: large size (Large is ...
RECKLESS DISREGARD Chris Halsne, an investigative reporter for the past 14 years at Cox Medias KIRO-7-CBS in Seattle (Market #12), starts Monday as a reporter at Tribune Broadcastings KDVR-31-Fox in Denver (Market #17). In ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Tomorrow is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. It commemorates the day in 1941 that more than 2000 Americans were left dead in Pearl Harbor, ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." One of the most common redundancies reporters and anchors use is extradite back, as in: Authorities in Hays County are working to extradite ...
PLAYING ALONG Ron Burgundy will guest host ?The Dan Patrick Show? today on the NBC Sports Network. "I?ve been lucky enough to work with some of the greats… Costas, Michaels, and now Mr. Ron ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." This Dayton Daily News sentence made Mrs. Bs peepers blink uncontrollably: The end result will be wind chills that remain in the teens ...
NERVE DYSFUNCTION Jeff Zucker (rhymes with hooker) woke up in his New York City apartment in June and realized he couldnt move his face. ?You wake up and you look in the mirror and ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." This CNN sentence surprised Mrs. B. In it is a redundancy that youve probably heard and read and maybe written or said: When ...
ANOTHER MORNING SHOW Blondiful Sam Champion, "America?s most-watched Weather Anchor," is leaving ABC?s top-rated "Good Morning America" for The Weather Channel. No, really. He will anchor a new un-named morning show on TWC, set ...
TINTED BURGUNDY Color us confused by the way local stations have allowed themselves to be manipulated into promoting the return of Ron Burgundy and his band of idiot misfits to the big screen. "Anchorman ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets talk redundancies this week. Heres one: In South Carolina, some orchards succumbed completely. ("No Pecan Pie? Thank China, Rain and Pigs," nytimes, ...
RATHER v. LOGAN Comparisons between Lara Logans current predicament at "60 Minutes" and Dan Rathers discredited 2004 report on President George W. Bushs Air National Guard service cannot be made without exploring the role ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." If you think "how come," instead of "why," sounds like slang, Mrs. B wants you to hear what author and language commentator Charles ...
TAKING LEAVE CBS has ordered "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan and her producer to take an indefinite leave of absence, after an internal review found deep flaws in her reporting about the attack on ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Hanukkah (thats the most common spelling) begins at sundown tonight. Its the 8-day Jewish holiday that commemorates the rededication of the Temple of ...
CLICKTHRU KATIE Beginning sometime in 2014, Katie Couric will become the new "Global Anchor" for Yahoo News. What this means, even Couric doesnt know. "I don?t think it is going to be a half-hour ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. B wants to go over a common usage mistake, or maybe its just a spelling issue. One of the meanings of lose ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Mrs. Bs lesson today is about choices. When do you use between and among? Use between for two things: ~She divides her time ...
NUCLEAR OPTION Nicole Pence, a young reporter and weekend morning news anchor, who was reportedly fired last week after just 18 months at Dispatch Broadcastings WTHR-13-NBC in Indianapolis (Market #26), has retained legal counsel. ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Naval has to do with a navy. For example: US naval convoy crosses Egypts Suez Canal (headline, aljazeera.com, 11-8-2013) A navel is a ...
SEEKING "PLAN B" Now, more than a year after her arrest for DUI, reckless driving, and failure to maintain lane, Amanda Davis, the former primary news anchor at Fox-owned WAGA-5 in Atlanta (Market #9), ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." No one will ever know you dont know the difference between there, theyre, and their, until the slip-up appears on a graphic or ...
EGREGIOUSLY MISREPORTED Media Generals (formerly Young Broadcastings) KELO-3/6/11/15-CBS in Sioux Falls, SD (Market #111), was too short handed to send a reporter to a city school board meeting last week. So the station reported ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." When Mrs. B read this correct use of cache in the Washington Posts email headlines, she thought a lesson on cache and cachet ...
TAKING A POWDER Florida Republican Representative Trey Radel, a former morning news anchor at WINK-11-CBS in Ft. Myers (Market #62), was charged with misdemeanor possession of cocaine in DC Superior Court yesterday. He faces ...
HEADED TO THE APPLE 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, has been promoted to president and general ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." When Mrs. B read this story on a Utica newspapers website, she was inspired to do the collides and crashes into lesson: The ...
EXPOSED ROOTS An outbreak of violent late-season weather shook the Midwest yesterday and exposed the roots of cable news. The Weather Channel interrupted its "natural drama" programming, including "Prospectors" ("The Weather Channel follows them ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES 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 headline from a Denver stations website: Police ...
SWEEPS BAIT John Gumm, the morning meteorologist at Sinclairs WKRC-12-CBS in Cincinnati (Market #35), wont have to shoot the dog after all. He told Facebook fans hed adopt a Bichon Frise puppy that was ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." Lets be sure youre using the correct preposition. ~Perhaps you have an aversion to seeing blood. (It might even make you feel woozy.) ...
HOMOGENIZED NEWS Three cheers for Debby Knox, who says aloud what we already know. Knox, the city?s longest-running female news anchor, will retire from Lins WISH-8-CBS in Indianapolis (Market #26) on Nov. 26 (the ...
MRS. BLUEZETTES GRAMMAR YAMMER "A PBS mind in a Twitter world." In listening to the coverage of Typhoon Haiyan, Mrs. B is sometimes hearing "dead bodies." Thats redundant. The word bodies tells the sad ...
