WBA NewsroomChristopher Jones-Cruise thinks the reason is that so many young reporters have heard the horrible syntax of “NewsSpeak” from others in the newsroom, and they think they have to emulate it.
Some of it, to me, is simple laziness. How many cop shop stories conclude with “the incident remains under investigation”, simply because that’s the last sentence of the police report? As a lot of my news coaches told me, decades ago, “journalism is not stenography”, a phrase that’s come back into vogue lately.
Read Jones-Cruise’s interesting column for the RTDNA here.
Posted by Tim Morrissey