[Ads-l] biism

[Ben Zimmer]

The official CNN transcript has:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/31/acd.02.html
[Katrina Pierson, National Spokeswoman for the Trump campaign:] "And this
is the type of bias that happens in the media that Mr. Trump is talking
about."

But you can hear for yourself Ms. Pierson clearly says "bi-ism":

https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20160601_050000_Anderson_Cooper_360#start/480/end/540

I should note that CNN also errs in transcribing Anderson Cooper's followup
question. He asks, "Is it the reporter's job to trumpet a candidate?" but
the transcript says, "Isn't the reporter's job to trump a candidate?"


On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On May 31, 2016, at 9:15 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Well, maybe "bi-ism" looks better.
> >
> > Trump "surrogate" on CNN:
> >
> > "This is the type of bi-ism that happens in the media that Mr. Trump
> > is talking about."
>
> Maybe if "biased" is interpreted as "bi-ist", it's a short step to
> "bi-ism"...
>
> >
> > Non-Trump surrogates undoubtedly prefer "bias."
>
> You elitists!
>
> LH
>
>

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