Wednesday, October 12, 2005

"courage"

I love it when newspeople take a phrase and make it their own: According to the new movie, Edward R Murrow closed with "Good Night, and Good Luck", Ted Baxter signed off with "Good Night and Good News" and Dan Rather indulged in all sorts of odd fare-thee-wells over his long career. Shep starts Studio B with "the news begins anew", Paige Hopkins has a signature inflection to her greeting "Hel--lo everybody" and one can't hear the word "bloviating" without thinking of Bill O'Reilly (of course, no one much uses that word aside from Bill). Another patentable phrase of Bill's is "what say you sir?", and perhaps he should have patented it, because I heard Shep use this line yesterday and it sounded wrong, wrong, wrong. Mimicry may be a sincere form of flattery, but probably can't be used subtly on a million listeners.
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