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Newsflash: Bring back well-spoken journalists.
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Opinion: TV news reporters need upgrade

V Guest, LynwoodCanning Gazette

WHAT has happened to all the good TV reporters?

When reporting news from outside the studio, the new brand of reporters tend to begin several sentences with the word, ‘Well’, and go on to gasp their way through their message as though they had run a marathon.

Once upon a time, news was reported in well-phrased sentences that did not detract from the subject matter about which they were reporting.

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