Can You Repeat That Over Again?

      Radio and TV news writing is supposed to be informal.  Not slangy or imprecise, but more or less conversational.

      Everyday speech has a lot of redundancy, which may explain why I keep hearing horrors like this:

      "It's 6:14 a.m. in the morning and there's a traffic problem on the roads of the city's north side of town.  A man was robbed and his watch and money were taken at an ATM machine when an armed gunman showed up and appeared immediately right after he completed finishing putting in his PIN number...."

      They're everywhere all over the dial.  Oh, no!  It's catching!  And communicable!