Wrong word usage and verbosity in journalism - 3

To round up this three-part series on major weaknesses of the country’s English-language journalism that I encountered during my online Forum’s 10-year weekly media English watch, I am presenting just three more of the most recurrent and blatant examples of shoddy language, plain untruthfulness or cluelessness, outrageous grammar, and flagrant verbosity committed by the major media outlets.

Take this awful case of redundancy in a 2011 lead sentence of a science news story: “MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine government lacks sufficient equipment and facilities to cope with widespread nuclear fallout in the country, an official revealed yesterday.”