Wednesday, November 21, 2007

PLEASE PUT A HAND!

OK TV6 managers. Media Watch finds it difficult to believe that you all are watching and listening to the same newscast that your hundreds of thousands of viewers are watching every night (and cringing every night too!).
Please help Samantha John with her pronunciation and presentation. In your 7pm news she said "The journey....continue"; then she went to her customary "vairious" and "sairious".

In the interview with the parent whose child had food poisoning, she did not identify the parent, just said "a PTA member". She should have said the person preferred to remain anonymous, because it left the viewer with the impression that she just forgot to name the parent; the interview as well was very stilted.

Then the icing on the cake was when she said the film on Laventille children was shown at the "Tri-beeka" Grand, instead of the "Tri-becka" Grand (correctly spelt Tribeca).

Sigh! What is going on? Doesn't Miss John understand that when she distracts her viewers with her mispronunciations the viewers then miss the rest of her sentence which was carefully crafted by the reporters?
Miss John, you need to ask for clarification on how to pronounce a word BEFORE you go on the air!
Please managers, put a hand!