Newsreaders..

Max Headroom

As i switch between Nova and TX all day it amazes upsets me that they make so many mistakes and mispronunciations (thats "sayin it wrongly," in case any of them are reading this)..was wondering if its noticeable on the other stations...

Max Headroom

Clearly just those two offenders then..

Canadel

I think your level of expectation is too high for those particular stations you mention. Has the election taught you nothing? Lower your expectations.

Max Headroom

Canadel wrote: »

I think your level of expectation is too high for those particular stations you mention. Has the election taught you nothing? Lower your expectations.

True..but i thought a basic level of literacy was required...clearly not ..:(

lilywhitearmy

The Today FM lot say 'Gorrrjun' instead of Guardian when referring to the newspaper

badgersbelief

there's an awful amount of mispronunciations and mistakes particularly in the evening/night time and particularly in the sports news too

NUTLEY BOY

I hear that an abstention is now an abstentination. This was in the middle of the afternoon a week or so ago. They used a different word for the next bulletin.

The funniest ones are the news twits who try importing Americanisations and who cock it up in trying to be so smart. When the electricity goes off I still call it a power cut. The colonials call it a power outage. So, I was really amused to hear that parts of Blackrock had once suffered a power outrage.


I blame it on all those years learning Irish but that is another subject.

NUTLEY BOY

There is only one thing funnier than the malaprops and that is when they cannot string a sentence together by putting the words in the right order. Sometimes this changes the whole meaning.

We know they mean that X was charged today, before Dublin District, with the murder of Y but that often comes out as X being charged today with the murder of Y in the District Court.

HeidiHeidi

One thing that has puzzled me for the last while - most RTE newsreaders pronounce NI Secretary Theresa Villiers' name as Theresa Villers (missing out the i in her surname).

Now maybe that's how she pronounces it herself, but it really sets my teeth on edge.

Deediddums

That is how she pronounces it herself. In any case, why would it set your teeth on edge when you're not even sure of the correct way to say it yourself?

snubbleste

Doonleeri instead of Dún Laoghaire

ford fiesta

last week a young female newsreader on Newstalk's hourly news service (to a local station) pronouncing Nancy Reagan as Nancy Regan (i.e.: Re-gan the more common irish surname).
I have never heard the Reagan surname pronounced like this in this context.
It is possible the newsreader had never heard of her.

gimmick

One I love from years ago was on Red FM in Cork. The news reader was talking about Paul Lambert (pronounced Lambert) but kept refering to him as the french version LamBear (as in the guy in Highlander).

Red used to be a goldmine generally for awful readers. I think they have improved somewhat over the years.

Csalem

A few years ago I was listening to a Dublin station where the newsreader announced that Pope Benedict was making his first public address that day, when it was his last, and then the sportsreader started reading out the Scottish Premier League fixtures that evening and commenced with Middlesbrough.

soc160

I'm always surprised these threads pop up.

I don't like to say the pronunciations are wrong, I think some stations just have different style guides, while sometimes it's just more convenient. Why does the news have to stick out like a sore thumb on a station with proper pronunciations? If it fits for it to be more relaxed then go with that.

GSF

soc160 wrote: »

I'm always surprised these threads pop up.

I don't like to say the pronunciations are wrong, I think some stations just have different style guides, while sometimes it's just more convenient. Why does the news have to stick out like a sore thumb on a station with proper pronunciations? If it fits for it to be more relaxed then go with that.

Different style guides lol ! So different that most people laugh out right at their dumbness

soc160

GSF wrote: »

Different style guides lol ! So different that most people laugh out right at their dumbness

Well ye, all stations would have different style guides, the problem is news is syndicated now by very few organisations, so Communicorp runs it from a central news centre for most of it's dublin stations and they would share scripts, they also send stuff down the wires now for other stations in Dublin. So you're more likely hear the same pronunciation repeatedly.

People laughing at newsreaders is very sad, everyone says things differently, whether they say them the same way a listener says them is irrelevant unless its a blatant mistake, it's usually a matter of opinion or instruction from the head of news or programme director.