TV3 news needs to learn English

The Dick van Dyke Show’s Rose Marie once told a story how her husband, Bobby Guy, got upset when the trumpeter at John F. Kennedy’s funeral missed a note. Everyone’s more sensitive when a national figure has died.
   In New Zealand, I had a similar but more subdued reaction when the TV3 journalist, in the six o’clock news’s lead item, referred to ‘Governor-Generals’—in that Sir Edmund Hillary is getting a state funeral, an exception to the rule that these are reserved for heads of state. Note to the Australian-owned network: Governors-General is the plural form.
   Then again, this is the same network that once referred to the ‘US Marine Corpse’, so I am not sure why I should be surprised.
   TV One’s That’s Life or How’s Life or Life or Life at 5.30 or whatever it was called—heck, everyone knew it as The Charlotte Dawson Show—had ‘pronounciation’ when discussing the topic, so I think that still takes the cake.
   How funny to be corrected by some dumb immigrant for whom English is his second language.