Mizter T wrote:
"Chris Tolley" (ukonline really) wrote:
Mizter T wrote:
"Chris Tolley" (ukonline really) wrote:
Mizter T wrote:
"Chris Tolley" (ukonline really) wrote:
MIG wrote:
The newsreaders just keep on dumbly reading it out every half hour.
You'd think that the London travel newsroom would have some vague
idea about transport in London.
Would you? Why? Do you think it is a requirement for people who
mention
London in the things they read out to be Londoners?
Except that's not what MIG said.
What isn't? I'm asking questions which are clearly about what MIG said.
He didn't mention anything about Londoners, let alone any requirement to
be
one.
I know. I can't see what your problem is with what I asked. Did you miss
the question mark between the "Why" and the "Do", thus misreading the
question?
Why did you introduce the Londoners concept? The way you worded your
question implied that that's what MIG either said or thinks (a little akin
to 'How often do you beat you wife?', though hardly of the same league).
For exactly the same reason that I speculated about what was causing you
the difficulty in my question above. To me that and the question posed
to MIG are functionally and structurally equivalent. As I said, I can't
see why you seized on it, especially as you took my second question in
your stride. I suppose that in both cases, they are just me confiding
the impression that has been created for me by the thing that I am
asking about.
FWIW, I'd certainly think - indeed expect - that a "London travel newsroom
would have some vague idea about transport in London" - I'm not sure that's
so contentious a point. His preceding sentence about "newsreaders [who] just
keep on dumbly reading it out" does complicate his point a bit, as we've
discussed.
That was the whole of it for me. I read what MIG wrote as suggesting the
final responsibility for accuracy of the broadcast news lay with the
newsreaders.
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