For a low budget, tight bottom-line outfit, Quincy has dropped some serious coin on their remake of 21Alive. It's now ABC21, complete with new faces, fancy-looking news set, and a whiz-bang computer system that's eliminating support jobs left and right. Imagine, no one in the building after the 11pm news.
But one thing remains constant. No one, apparently, knows how to type.
Forget, for a moment, that this is a "victim" story about IPFW's Women's Studies program and the purported hate crimes committed against it. That's a story for another blogger to write. Instead, take a look at the grammatical disaster that 21Alive, uh, ABC21 has become famous for.
The Maven will step aside and let ABC21's infamous brilliant hire, the now long-gone excitable chief meteorologist Carlo say those famous words of Maxwell Smart: "missed it by that much".
Yes, friends. The Maven is fully aware that law enforcement authorities issue a myriad of things in their official capacity. It's very common to hear about advisories, warnings and warrants being issued. However, the Maven has never heard, seen, or read about a raid being issued. Yes, a drug raid was "issued". Our local journalists reported it, so, it must be true!
The nimble news writers at 21Alive, or ABC21 or, NBC33 or, not-so-WISE TV, or whatever they have branded themselves this week.....are reporting that Indiana State Police have "issued" a drug raid upon a local business. Back in the day, authorities used to "conduct" raids, not issue them.
First, the cost-cutter, bean-counters at the home office in Quincy disabled the spell-check on newsroom computers to save a buck. Now, they have, apparently removed the essence of common sense from the newsroom, as well.
In these days of consolidation, programming hubs, and "economies of scale"....this is what the future of absentee-owned, local media looks like. And we just swallow the codswallop and beg for more.
