"Weighing Anchors"

[Mervin Block]

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>> Dear Friend,
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>> "Weighing Anchors" has now been released. Subtitle: "When Network Newscasters Don't Know Write from Wrong."
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>> The book documents distortions, deceptions and delinquencies in many scripts.
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>> These are some of the headings in the table of contents:
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>> Brian Williams: Nightly Problems
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>> Diane Sawyer: When Words Fail Her
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>> Scott Pelley: Wearing Two Hats Can Cause Headaches
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>> Autopsy of an Anderson Cooper Script
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>> CNN: Blitzer Cries Wolf
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>> Networks Mangle and Strangle Language
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>> Health News That's Not Healthful
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>> "60" Keeps on Ticking, But Its Writing Takes a Licking
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>> ABC's Muir Seems to Think Using Tonight Works Muiracles
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>> ABC Anchor Tampers with Clock and Calendar
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>> Hard Look Finds Weak Script Fading to Blah
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>> Write This Way, Please
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>> Alas, Poor Couric
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>> The publisher of "Weighing Anchors" is Marion Street Press (http://www.marionstreetpress.com/home); 216 pages, paperback, $18.95.
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>> No release of a book would be complete without blurbs. To save time, here's just one:
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>> "When network news anchors murder the language--which they do night after night--thank goodness there's Merv Block to perform the autopsy. No one has a better ear or sharper pencil than Merv Block. He's a one-man quality control department for the broadcast news business. His wise and witty dissections of TV's highest-paid poobahs and their verbal blunders are both hilarious and appalling. After reading his collection of spot-on critiques, you'll never watch TV news the same way again."
>> --Robert Feder, media critic, Time Out Chicago
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>> I'm Mervin Block, and I approved this message.
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