Michael Mertinooke

PBS Newshour is a paragon of brilliant reporting by intelligent and insightful presenters, but suffers from a woeful lack of credibility. My wife and I are faithful listeners, but your nightly broadcasts are often painful. If you listen to the crazy newscast channels, you hear simple language, short sentences, clear (if loud) speech. Each sentence has one subject, one object, one verb. Easy to understand, easy to believe. By contrast, when I listen to PBS Newshour I hear speed-talking, stammering, and hyper-complex sentences that are hundreds of words long. There are often more interjections than nouns. You sound like you're selling something suspicious. We listeners are waiting for you to trot our the Ginzu knives. This reduces your collective credibility to nearly zero. Please give your presenters a tutorial in public speaking, or at least teach them how to diagram a sentence.