Amazing

[Dave W]

I haven't watched any part of the Oscars for at least 20 years. This is all I need to know.

[gearHed289]

I got through about half of that. Amazing!

[Pilgrim]

I watched it.  Kind of enjoyed it, and rather enjoyed Seth Mcfarlane tweaking Hollywood. 

[Basvarken]

[uwe]

It's the new gorgeous then.

[the mojo hobo]

I haven't watched any part of the Oscars for at least 20 years.

That's amazing.

[Aussie Mark]

Reminds me of an Alexei Sayle sketch.

[Hörnisse]

[Dave W]

Two more overused words: absolutely and exactly, used when a simple "yes" would do.

I started noticing this a couple of years ago; I'll have one of the national morning shows on in the background for a while waiting for the news and weather. Whenever the hosts are interviewing someone, seems like every yes/no question is answered with "absolutely" or sometimes "exactly."

One of our local weathercasters is awful about this. Whether she's talking to an anchor or interviewing some group during the weathercast or hosting her Saturday morning news program, she's the queen of absolutely. If you had a drinking game where you would down a shot every time she says it on her Saturday morning show, you would have acute alcohol poisoning before the show was over.

[Pilgrim]

Every broadcaster who acts like a pro knows that you have to air-check yourself often, and listen to those recordings.  Everyone is prone to having pet phrases creep into their conversation, and there's no way to detect that unless you record air checks to assess what you're saying.  Sounds like she's not doing this.  An email to the station would be appropriate.

[gweimer]

Every broadcaster who acts like a pro knows that you have to air-check yourself often, and listen to those recordings.  Everyone is prone to having pet phrases creep into their conversation, and there's no way to detect that unless you record air checks to assess what you're saying.  Sounds like she's not doing this.  An email to the station would be appropriate.

I can't watch the video at work, but when I was writing for the periodical, my editor was really good about training me on things like repetitive words and phrases.  He never let me get away with referring to the same thing more than twice the same way on a single page review.  So, I got in the practice of using alternate words a lot - record, disk, vinyl, LP, platter, etc.

[Dave W]

Every broadcaster who acts like a pro knows that you have to air-check yourself often, and listen to those recordings.  Everyone is prone to having pet phrases creep into their conversation, and there's no way to detect that unless you record air checks to assess what you're saying.  Sounds like she's not doing this.  An email to the station would be appropriate.

It would be appropriate, but she's the chief meteorologist now and she's popular. I doubt if an email would have an effect unless I wrote to her directly.

It's not just her, though. Listen to the Today show some morning, and watch the guests (always pushing some product, diet etc.) let the absolutelys and exactlys fly out of their mouths.

Of course, every news station is unique and has its own way of phrasing things. Here's an example. 

[Darrol]

If there is anything from this year's Oscars that you need to know, it is this. Nearly 500 visual effects artists were just blocks away protesting while the stars arrived and walked down the red carpet yet it wasn't mentioned. Then they introduced the Best Visual Effects category in a disrespectful manner before cutting off the winner just as he tried to bring attention to the situation.

[drbassman]

Geez, where wouldHollywood be without them?  It's all smoke and mirrors anyway!

[Pilgrim]

Those of us who keep the technology going and do the tech tricks know that we will never get credit in public. Never happened, not gonna happen.

Doesn't bother me a bit.  I make a living.