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The Vanishing Verb: A Media Watch Special ReportThe Online NewsHour
 
Fox News Channel's Shepard SmithCNN's John KingNBC's Kelly O'Donnell

Shifting Speech
Terence Smith examines the truncated, telegraphic delivery employed by some of today's TV news reporters. (8/24/01)

Extended Interviews

Robert Hager
The NBC News correspondent examines how the new "TV-speak" affects how reporters tell a story.

Tom Phillips
The former writer and editor for The CBS Evening News discusses the shift in broadcast language over the past three decades.

Shepard Smith
The Fox News Channel anchor discusses the new brisk, conversational on-air style on his program.

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