The Death Of News

Chris Little

Looking at the murderous ways radio and TV reporters are using sloppy writing, bad grammar and lazy news gathering techniques to kill the creativity of news. We wrap this short episode up up with suggestions on how to keep creative storytelling alive.

  1. 12/25/2025

    Take A Listen. Take A Look. Don't Tell Us What To Do.

    Reporters and anchors love to try to save us from ourselves and they love to tell us what to do. But that's not their job. You'd think it IS their job based on the examples they give us in this edition of The Death Of News.

    7 min

  2. 11/23/2025

    What CBS News Learned & A Local Radio Station Has Parrots

    Radio and TV anchors don't need to tell us what they've learned. And it's never necessary to say the same thing twice back-to-back.

    9 min

  3. 11/02/2025

    Shutdown Details A Little Off

    KTLA gets the details of the October 1st government shutdown wrong; Fox 11 uses cliches and reports on stuff that didn't happen.

    7 min

  4. 10/16/2025

    Listen To Your Story

    Reporters need to pay attention to what they write after they do an interview; it wouldn't hurt anchors to cut back on the cliches; and everybody needs get the words right.

    7 min

  5. 10/01/2025

    A Pair Of MOS Interviews That Shouldn't Have Been

    Uh oh. One LA TV news anchor breaches a basic rule of journalism and convicts Charlie Kirk's alleged killer. Using only percentages to tell crime stat stories can be misleading. Two tents of an inch of rain ain't nothin' for the LA River. And, the rain stops...redundantly.

    8 min

  6. 09/15/2025

    Amazing, Disturbing and Astonishing

    Looking at the use of adjectives, natural sound and wrong words. Included are examples from Arizona's Family (Channels 2 & 5), Fox 12 in Portland, KCAL in Los Angeles and more!

    7 min

  7. 08/26/2025

    Class Action? No. Not Yet.

    In this episode, I hammer an iHeart 24/7 NewsSource anchor over misinformation and bad form; WBZ Radio in Boston gets a thumbs up; and Los Angeles TV weather people get a thumbs down.

    8 min

  8. 08/09/2025

    Who Says?

    Sloppy writing leads to wrong adjective use, horses being labeled as wildlife, an anchor dropping an important W in the 5 W's of journalism, and more! Also included: A birthday shout-out to newswriting guru Mervin Block.

    7 min
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Looking at the murderous ways radio and TV reporters are using sloppy writing, bad grammar and lazy news gathering techniques to kill the creativity of news. We wrap this short episode up up with suggestions on how to keep creative storytelling alive.

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  • Creator
    Chris Little
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Chris Little
  • Show Website
    The Death Of News