“Hey! You! Hey you!” Pretty rude way to get someone’s attention isn’t it? But that’s what we...
Christopher TLS Cruise
Hello, and welcome to BadNewsWriting.com / BadBroadcastNewsWriting.com. I created this site to gather all of my columns and lists and thoughts about bad news writing in the hopes you will write better, using fewer clichés and journalese.
Journalsese: clichés, misnomers, and redundant phrases, all making their way too often into news scripts. So are...
When I started writing columns for RTDNA about bad broadcast news writing, I thought I would run out...
It’s “mourning’ in America” — or at least in Hollywood and in the sports world. If you watch,...
I write often (excessively? obsessively?) about “journalese,” that strange language that broadcast – and sometimes print –...