Indeed.
One of the on air bimbettes said this during the search-
"People in Cambridge are literally frozen inside their homes".
I thought to myself, "are they out of firewood"?
People literally use the word literally in such a way that it indicates that they literally have no idea of the real meaning of the word literally. I am literally tired of hearing the word literally being so literally misused.
Absolutely. TV station people write abominably. The point that struck me here, though, and I probably should have been more specific, is that when a writer puts something in quotation marks, the writer is stating that that is exactly what the source said, in those words.
If I were Mr. Dillard, I would be thoroughly pissed off. I’ll guess that his customers will give him a hard time about this for a while. “Hey, Jeff, got any bullet-heads for sale today?”