By
definition, [witty] has to do with something that is either said or done that
is quite amusing and/or very clever. To
the extent of my understanding, it is more often used to describe something
amusing than something strictly intellectual, such as what is supposed to be the
witty banter between members of a newscast team that is often used to fill in
the gaps between segments.
Yes,
I am building up to another rant about the quality of our local newscasts. For when one of the anchors on one of our
local newscasts mentioned something about the wife of a former colleague giving
birth to another Ole Miss fan, the other anchor quipped, “Ole Miss? Well, maybe we can make a Cardinals fan out
of him.”
Um,
just in case you are as witty as she is, [Ole Miss] is a university that is
mostly known for its football team (debatable, I know) while the Cardinals she
was referring to was either the [St. Louis Cardinals] or the [Springfield Cardinals], with both of them being professional baseball teams. In other words, we have a true apples and
oranges situation here. Okay, I suppose
I should give her credit for keeping it sports related.
The
next example doesn’t have anything to do with witty banter. For it is about one of our local reporters reporting
that a serious wreck occurred a couple of miles south of High Landville instead
of Highlandville.
Since
I am really not all that picky, this next example won’t have anything to do
with witty banter, either. For it is
about one of our local sportscasters announcing that [Jaime Garcia] would make
a rehab start with the Springfield Cardinals before joining the big league team
after suffering a serious injury to his left shoulder earlier in the season,
and pronouncing his name as Hay-may Garcia instead of High-me—even after conducting
an on-camera interview with the pitcher!
No, I didn’t catch if he mispronounced his name during the interview,
but it has taken him at least four tries since to get it right.
Keeping
with sports, we have a local sportscaster who dreams of making it to the [big time], and it just might be that he is not as clueless as I give him credit for
being. For while presenting a story
about the NFL wanting to make football (the real kind) an Olympic sport, a
couple of the ESPN sportscasters put up a list of NFL players who were born someplace other than the U.S., and included on that list was [Tim Tebow]
and [Hines Ward].
Now,
in the spirit of full disclosure, it is true that Tebow was born in the Philippians
while his parents were doing missionary work there, and Ward was born in South
Korea while his father was stationed there with the U.S. Army. However, both were actually raised around
real football in America when what the ESPN idiots were going for was NFL
players who had grew up in a much different culture and started playing the
game at a much older age than what most NFL players do.
No,
I am not expecting perfection. In fact,
I find it quite endearing when a newscaster messes up and then corrects the
mistake with nothing more than merely a roll of their eyes, and if there is
time for not-so-witty banter, there is certainly time to start correcting the
things that are driving me nuts. Yeah, I
really do need to get a life.
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