In what should be a simple bar assault story, the kids in the WANE-TV newsroom do their best to confuse their audience by reporting that a man was beaten into a medically-induced coma.
Usually, medically-induced comas are performed in hospitals and not on barroom floors. So, in reading the WANE-TV story, does that mean an EMT, doctor, nurse, or another qualified medical professional beat the living daylights out of the man at the bar?
To further bamboozle and confuse the audience, WANE-TV can't decide,
(1) if the medically-induced coma was performed at the bar, or
(2) at the at a local hospital.
The writing is "murky", to say the least.
And one more thing:
Borrowing some of this for a post of my own, with due credit. Subject: stupidity. I think it fits...
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ReplyDeleteToo many "interns" at the stations...plus the failure of our educational system (that awards one just for PARTICIPATION).
No other reason...lol.
Good call.
Stay safe
I beg your pardon, but compound adjectives containing adverbs ending in ly are never hyphenated.
ReplyDeleteWhile the general rules indicate that a hyphen is not "necessary", the use of a hyphen is not prohibited. In most news writing style templates, the hyphen is preferred, especially when half-drunk anchor persons are reading from the Teleprompter.
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