Has anyone heard any news person fully articulate the phrase below recently?

[MineralMan]

"President of the United States"

I have not heard it said by anyone for a very, very long time. Usually, it's spoken as "Presenitedstates" as a single word. Everyone does it on all news media.

That bothers me for some reason. Probably for no good reason, but it bothers me, nevertheless.

[JPPaverage]

1. Maybe they refuse to recognize his legitimacy.

I know a lot of us out here in America do.

[MineralMan]

2. It's not about Trump. They've been doing it for years now.

It's just sloppy speech patterns.

[NurseJackie]

3. Greta Van Susteren is a bad mumbler and syllable-skipper.

[MineralMan]

4. Yes, but I've been trying to think of anyone who

pronounces all five words completely, and can't think of a single news person who does that. It's been bugging me for years, now.

There was a time when on-air people had to audition using tongue-twisters just to get a job on the radio. Apparently, though, there is no requirement for decent articulation in speech for broadcast people any longer.

It's just one of the silly things that annoy the heck out of me.

The other one is "As far as [noun]" spoken without a verb. Everyone seems to do that now, too. Even the local weather guy on the local TV news I watch does it. "As far as snow, it looks like this storm will miss the metro area." How hard is it to say "As far as snow is concerned..." or "As far as snow goes...?" I don't like sloppy, wet snow, or sloppy speech from on-air people.

[NurseJackie]

5. Or adding "wise". Snowwise, we're in for 3 inches. Windwise it'll be blustery.

Ugh.

[MineralMan]

6. Ugh, indeed. Making up words is even worse.

The level of diction of television news has dropped about four grade levels since I started paying attention. Mispronunciations of fairly common words read from a news teleprompter are also more common these days.