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When Newscasters Don't Keep Up With The Times
This won't be the most important thing you read today, but I've begun to notice this still happens a lot on both TV and radio newscasts. With the ubiquity of cell phone cameras these days, more and more incidents are being used on both media. So what do you hear more often than not when one of these things is being presented on-air? It generally goes like this:
"A road rage incident has left one man in hospital and another man charged. And the entire incident was caught on tape."
Tape? I've also frequently heard "film." Who uses either one of those these days? It's a minor thing, but it signals just how much things have changed - and how hard it appears to be to come up with a phrase that means the same thing. "Caught on video" is the most common. But what else can you say? "Caught on digital?"
Perhaps "captured on camera" is the best.
But as much as broadcasters are trying to put the "new" in "news,", too often they refer to something that's very, very old.
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How about.."their new ALBUM." Maybe if it was released in 1986.
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Just a Radio Fan wrote:
How about.."their new ALBUM." Maybe if it was released in 1986.
I'd say "album" is still correct as it's a collection of songs. Whether it's a physical thing or download or stream.
Record is wrong unless you actually have the vinyl.
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What about referring to those things we carry around all day as 'phones'? When's the last time anyone actually talked into one of them?
Alexander Graham Bell could have tapped out, "Mr. Watson, come here - I want to see you", in Morse Code, but he decided to just speak. Much easier. Remember that? Bwahahahahahahahahahaha.
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Tomorrow will be a "carbon copy" of today.
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these days, has the price of "your thoughts" been rounded up or down?
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these days, has the price of "your thoughts" been rounded up or down?
Rounded dow...oh look! Paying with a bank card means the digital penny is forever! No rounding up or down when paying with a bank card! 
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as much as broadcasters are trying to put the "new" in "news,", too often they refer to something that's very, very old.
Who's got time to keep up with the times?
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back in my day we used phones to talk with people... back in my day.
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I was going to respond to all this, but my pager just went off...
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"...on the dotted line."
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I've learned to take a few deep breaths (and then do some research) before flying off the handle.
A few months ago I heard a station promoting their winning a RTDNA award. My first thought was to complain that they can't even get RTNDA right.
Fortunately, I did nothing. Then I discovered it became RTDNA back in 2010.
Whew!
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"Robert Meuller telegraphed he wouldn't have more to add to his statement in May."
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"Robert Meuller telegraphed he wouldn't have more to add"
That's "Mueller"; please keep up with the times
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Thank you. I shall inform the person from whom I scalped.