Bill:
Way back in the 1970's I was attending a class at IBM in Alexandria
VA. After class one night I as coming into the hotel room and had
just turned on TV for the 6 PM news.
A newscaster (local mind you)managed to mangle 6 country names in 5
minutes.
I watched it at 11 to see if the same mistakes were made.
They did better though and only managed to mangle 4.
Good god this was in the nations capitol.
With the national news they do better now days though, so something
is good is happening.
Ed
On Apr 22, 2014, at 5:43 PM, DASDBILL2 wrote:
The spelling errors are rapidly increasing in the "headlines" at
the bottom of the screen on TV "news" programs. The obvious errors
made by TV news anchors when trying to read what to say from a
monitor a few feet away are also rapidly increasing. The
obviousness with which TV interviewers and even interviewees are
READING their scripted questions and answers is also rapidly
increasing. This last point is made worse when the person reading
says something obviously wrong, which means that someone wrote it
that way, got the error past the proofreader (am I dreaming that
they even have one?), and then greatly enlarged the font so that
the error could be easily read from several feet away.
Almost all news is now entertainment, and almost all entertainment
is now news.
It was not much better 53 years ago. “[Television programming is
a] vast wasteland…” [09 MAY 1961; speech to the National
Association of Broadcasters by Newton Minow, Chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission]
Bill Fairchild, 7th grade school champion speller, 1956
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted MacNEIL" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:42:54 AM
Subject: Re: Sorry state of IT education?
I agree! And teachers are making it worse. When my older son did a
science project once there were a lot of spelling and grammatical
errors. Not only did the teacher not even bother to flag them; she
said it was not her job to correct them -- she was science not
English!
When I went through, I lost marks for that, even in science class!
The attitude was: as long as he got his point across it was good
enough.
Good enough is NOT good enough!
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-teD
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Original Message
From: Staller, Allan
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 09:23
To: [email protected]
Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Subject: Re: Sorry state of IT education?
Not just IT. The entire education system from k-12 through
bachelor's degree...
Al Staller | Z Systems Programmer | KBM Group | (Tel) 972 664-3565
| [email protected]
<snip>
Not too surprising to me. I imagine this is the norm for today
because a well educated, intelligent, worker costs a lot more than
a preprogrammed drone.
http://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/executive-insights-and-
innovation/the-sorry-state-of-it-education/d/d-id/1204552
<quote>
Our profession is rife with people capable of performing procedures
they've been taught, but incapable of thinking through a problem.
Here's what we need to do.
</quote>
</snip>
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