NPR, sheesh
“There has been a lot of complaints....”
“There has been a lot of complaints....”
Orange Crate Art: MSNBC, sheesh
A reporter, this afternoon: “They’ve already casted ballots....”
NPR, sheesh
You can walk a line. You can thread a needle. You can walk the line if you’re Johnny Cash. But you cannot walk a needle. Ouch.
NYT, sheesh
The NYT misspells “stationery.”
MSNBC, sheesh
“He can also pretty regularly say things that drive a wedge between he and their support.”
How to improve writing (no. 123)
Subject and verb should always agree. Sheesh, NY Times.
MSNBC, sheesh
“... trying to put some distance between he and her ...”
MSNBC, sheesh
“As Ryan enunciated . . . .”
NYT, sheesh
“She has also been suffering from a deterioration in her short-term memory and her ability to hold conversations for more than a year.”
NYT, sheesh
“His lawyers’ own foibles are seldom disqualifying, so long as they defend him in the manner he desires.”
Succession, sheesh
“I thought it might be time for you and I to move on.”
NPR, sheesh
“In Greek and Roman mythology, Venus is the goddess of love.”
NBC, sheesh
“Radar anomoly.”
MSNBC, sheesh
“The president said that him and his team are fully cooperating.”
MSNBC, sheesh
“. . . whomever is going to be Speaker.”
NPR, sheesh
“These cookies have taken on new meaning as an adult.”
Bloomberg, sheesh
“Throughout the process, Neal’s more cautious approach to his investigation has grated some of his more progressive colleagues.”
MSNBC, sheesh
A few minutes ago the chyron announced “humanity’s return to the moon.” Who else would be in a position to go back?
NPR, sheesh
“As him and his aides think about this.”
Washington Post, sheesh
In a piece about the hazards of permanent daylight-saving time, another inapt “similar to.”
NPR, sheesh
“Similar to [a defeated former American president], Bolsonaro,” followed by some verb.
Fat-checking
Sheesh.
MSNBC, sheesh
A reporter, on the ground (as they say) in Wisconsin: “Her and her husband voted for,” &c.
Sheesh
An MSNBC host: “a massive cachet of classified documents.”
NBC, sheesh
Price of eggs soar ahead of Easter:” a chyron, as seen on NBC Nightly News tonight.
TPM, sheesh
Talking Points Memo this morning: “sharing sources of what I believe are reliable information.”
“More clear”
Sometimes I want NPR to be more better.
NPR, sheesh
“Commiserate” for “commensurate.”
Streets
The PBS NewsHour, tonight, in a seconds-long obituary: “He rose from the streets of working-class Brooklyn,” &c. Ah, yes, “the streets.” A cheap — not to mention insulting — cliché. Not even the sidewalks?
MSNBC, sheesh
“Fulsome.”