Jamie McIntyre
@JournosaurusRex
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Newscaster, NPR; Adjunct Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
Washington DC
Joined May 2010
Rebuttle to Walter Pincus from Floyd Abrams: Journalists labeled criminals http://t.co/tgooxBIwjC via @washingtonpost
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Sign of the times, the "Sun-Times" in this case. This is why I teach MULTI-media journalism, not SINGLE-media. http://t.co/q2fDRNSKZe
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Via @nprnews: The Night A Computer Predicted The Next President http://t.co/ZG4JTOTR
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Anatomy of an ambush interview: Good subject for discussion of standards and practices. http://t.co/gHnxbit6
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Note to @MattBush at WAMU. The number of suicides IS up, not ARE up. Number is the subject, not suicides! #SpeakMoreBetter
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Grammar note to @RushLimbaugh: a "conniption" IS a fit, so "conniption fit" is needlessly redundant #SpeakMoreBetter
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Wife just taught me a new, useful word: "solecism," a grammatical mistake in speech or writing. Her witty solecisms send me into paroxysms.
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Note 2 CNN: The wordplay involving the name of Jeremy Lin as in #Linsanity NOT a pun. It's a PORTMANTEAU. Puns employ soundalike words.
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Cupid Targets the Fed with early Valentines tweets #FedValentines
http://t.co/KctrKP8Z
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Even the President can #SpeakMoreBetter. Note to Mr. Obama: the word is pronounced PREF-er-uh-bul, NOT pre-FUR-able. (from intv w/ MLauer)
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Twice in 2 days I have seen "Ft. Myers, Fla" misspelled. Note to AP: it's NOT MEYERS, it's MYERS. #WriteMoreBetter -
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Note to self: It's GAB-re-uhl Giffords, not GAHB-re-uhl. Oops. Even I can #SpeakMoreBetter
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Note 2 WNEW's Jenny Glick: Metro & Virginia are singular, so take reflexive pronoun IT not THEY. "Metro says IT will.." #SpeakMoreBetter
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Many lessons here: quality vs number of sources, dangers of random retweeting, lack of attribution. Teachable moment http://t.co/LoQQTGNH
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Though its meaning IS changing, "fulsome" does not mean "more fully." It means "excessive, insincere, over-the-top," as in "fulsome praise"
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You will #SpeakMoreBetter and sound more "erudite" if you say "ER-you-dite," not "AIRY-you-dite." http://t.co/qEyjHwJp
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Judges hand DOWN, grand juries hand UP, but better to simply say someone was indicted, and forget the handing UP part-- #SpeakMoreBetter
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Note to @BretBaier who said, "our stage is down one podium," podium & lectern not interchangable. #SpeakMoreBetter. "podium down a lecturn"
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Note to AP, instead of "he plans on buying" #WriteMoreBetter: "he plans to buy..." shorter, to the point, sounds better. #SpeakMoreBetter!
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