So Now

[Joel S. Berson]

Used seemingly for the same purpose as "so" by virtually every TV
newscaster I hear (but, like Jon Lighter, I don't listen to Fox) is
the useless, uninformative, and time-wasting beginning of sentence
"now".  Now, has anyone written about that phenomenon?

Joel

At 5/22/2010 01:59 AM, Paul Frank wrote:

><http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/us/22iht-currents.html?scp=2&sq=so&st=cse>
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