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WFAA CHANNEL 8. MACIE NEEDS A PROOF READER

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Former Mercury/Gemini/Apollo Astronaut Wally Schirra died today.
Macie Jepson pronunced his name 4 times as "SHEE RAH"Like the cartoon character during 8's 12 noon newscast. Its "SHA-RAH". Do any of the network affiliates in market#5 have proof readers,and pronunciation guides at all? If so are they collecting dust? This is getting to be more than a slight humorous error. Credibility in information is threatened.
 
KPLEXCOMPLEX said:
Former Mercury/Gemini/Apollo Astronaut Wally Schirra died today.
Macie Jepson pronunced his name 4 times as "SHEE RAH"Like the cartoon character during 8's 12 noon newscast. Its "SHA-RAH". Do any of the network affiliates in market#5 have proof readers,and pronunciation guides at all? If so are they collecting dust? This is getting to be more than a slight humorous error. Credibility in information is threatened.
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I heard it too, and I cringed each time she said it. If she didn't know it, someone else should have. Just proves what we've been saying about having some old veterans in the mix, instead of the 20-somethings whose memory of current events and pop culture goes back no further than 1990's.
 
I hate slammin' on that particular woman (MERCY!), but...

I have TV on 24/7 here at the office and you should have heard the Boomers in here when she pronounced... er... butchered... his name. The groans were deafening. Sorry you guys weren't here to enjoy it, but rest assured, someone will be calling it Tell it to Tim... or, Pete. ;D
 
Speaking of Pete, look what I found on Kevin McCarthy's "Dallas Digest" board (check the retouched photo beside the first post on the page, from "travel guy."):
http://dallasdigest.mywowbb.com/forum2/31102.html

Anyway, pardon the interruption. Ya'll continue ripping Macie and/or everybody else at Victory Park...
 
What the producers/writers need to do, since it's obvious the talent isn't going to ask for pronunciation, is to put it in the teleprompter/on the script the way it sounds. That way they don't botch it when it is read. But, that is also the difference between Good Talent and what I'll call a lack there of... Good Talent will always proof read their scripts and "Lack there of" will not and sooner or later, they will get bit and mispronounce a name or place and they will sound like an idiot that basically is there to read the teleprompter and look pretty.
 
It's really a question of having a diverse set of people (age, ethnicity, etc.) behind the scenes to help out. For example, I am apparently not quite old enough to remember the astronaut or his name. However, I often catch mispronounciations (but apparently not Bexar County :D). I WILL go toe to toe with anyone on Native American-named cities in the Pacific Northwest, though.
 
Naw, diversity isn't what's needed. What's needed is someone with a half-pint of intelligence who gives a flying rip about being accurate. Someone who cares whether it's anal retentive or anal-retentive.

Now, say 15 Pew-WALL-ups, 10 TALL-i-suns, and 5 Ah-wah-TOO-keys before sundown and you will be absolved.
 
KPLEXCOMPLEX said:
Former Mercury/Gemini/Apollo Astronaut Wally Schirra died today.
Macie Jepson pronunced his name 4 times as "SHEE RAH"Like the cartoon character during 8's 12 noon newscast. Its "SHA-RAH". Do any of the network affiliates in market#5 have proof readers,and pronunciation guides at all? If so are they collecting dust? This is getting to be more than a slight humorous error. Credibility in information is threatened.
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Actually Dallas-Fort Worth is market #6.
 
Regardless Market 1 through 10, this bush league "I'll wing it in the pronunciation department" is far above what our market should be doing. You know? Macie is good and knows better. Hell, Terri Chappelle and her Cyclon eyeballs (shout out to Battlestar Galactica there) can do better than that.

Production on the air really needs to stay out of this market... MEMO TO DORKUS for your next Tornado marathon. :D
 
dhett said:
Naw, diversity isn't what's needed. What's needed is someone with a half-pint of intelligence who gives a flying rip about being accurate. Someone who cares whether it's anal retentive or anal-retentive.

Now, say 15 Pew-WALL-ups, 10 TALL-i-suns, and 5 Ah-wah-TOO-keys before sundown and you will be absolved.
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And if I hear the state of "ORE-REE-GONE" one more time... It's pronounced "ORE-GUN"! :D
 
Hey, I actually DO know how the pronounce all three of them. When I was young, Shari Lewis and other national television personalities would come to Seattle for KIRO's charity telethon. It was funny to hear them TRY to pronounce Wenatchee, Skykomish, Puyallup, etc. However, they were positively THRILLED when pledges came in from Kent, Renton, or Auburn! :D

Back to the original topic, this is why it's not bad to have people with "grey" hair around the station or, at least, grew up in the area. For example, in the San Antonio, Blanco Road is correctly pronounced as "Blank-o" (not the Spanish Blonk-o). I didn't know that when I moved to S.A. but quickly learned.
 
Thats true to a certain degree "AA" I was raised and lived in S.A. for 18 years/. "Blanco" Rd was called "Blon-CO" Rd. which is THE correct pronunciation, HOWVER in the mid 60's "BLANK CO" became dominant. Its still fun to hear pronunciations of "Culebra:"Zazamora""Medina"even "Wilford Hall" ::)
 
That would be Zarzamora (with an "r")! ;) There was actually a restaurant named "Salsamora" (don't know if it was around when you were there).

Interesting about Blanco Rd! I was told that it was pronounced "Blank-o" by a San Antonio native who would now be about 40 years old.

Oh well, in a generation, it will probably be a pronounciation free-for-all!
 
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