MSNBC just asked if recent revelations by Powell will "effect" trump's surge in the polls

[lunamagica]

OK, my grammar is far from perfect, but then again I'm not a professional journalist and English is not my first language (and even *I* caught that).

Isn't anyone proof-reading anything before it airs?

[molova]

1. No. Each outlet will write one article about it

Then poof!

Hillary's issues generate daily, multiple articles, commentary, TV talk, etc. etc.

[Blue Idaho]

2. "Surge?"

Nice choice of words...

[GeorgeGist]

3. MSNBC has professional journalists?

[asiliveandbreathe]

4. They don't seem to care about hennything - least of

all, journalistic talent - lack of research, and NO credibility from the gate...affect - effect..who cares..they certainly don't - but then, I turned away from watching news local, or cable long ago - (seems much to the chagrin of some here) - oh well, just follow the $$$...

I give those at DU so much credit for gutting it out...

[Maru Kitteh]

5. No. It's deplorable.

English classes appear to have slipped away from the requirements for journalism degrees.

[RoBear]

6. it's not necessarily an error.

To "affect" something means to have an influence on. To "effect" something means to cause. This was a continuing point of information for me when I was teaching Freshman English classes at the University here. God knows if they absorbed it, but there it is.

I do have to agree that if the speaker really MEANT "effect," it's extremely awkward phrasing, not to say misleading to most people. Considering that the "news" media gears their crappy workmanship to people with 5th grade educations, they should speak more clearly. However, considering their quest to skewer HRC on every conceivable fault they perceive (or in some cases, manufacture), you'd think they'd make an effort to speak more plainly.

I apologize for that paragraph's uppity-sounding language. I know I sound like an insufferable jackass, but sometimes, as Penny put it on Big Bang Theory, "a suitcase just won't do."

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. There quite sloppy over at MSNBC.