Tuesday, October 28, 2008

MEDIA WATCH WEEK - DAY 2

CHECK THESE GEMS!

Find and correct the errors in the entries below.

[He] "...shoulda went right to second base..."
Brian Dunstan, CBC Newsworld, Monday, October 27, 2008, 2:35 pm.

"I was doing good."
(I think this was in reference to his previous weather predictions in which he failed to predict the rain that cancelled the World Series Monday.)
Sam Champion, weatherman, ABC Good Morning America, Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 7:15 am.


TODAY'S WORD

The word for today is "self-effacement".
Define "self-effacement" and use it in a sentence.

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