Latest irritating neologism on BBC News 24

I'm pretty sure that what I'm about to describe is a new phenomenon - if not, then I've only just noticed it. Either way, it irritates me.

Who trained the presenters of News 24 (and possibly Sky News too, but I don't watch it) to follow the American style of saying that news or pictures are 'coming out of' such and such a place or country.

Latest news out of Egypt is that... etc, etc.

Wrong! It's the latest news from Egypt. It's not so much that this is an Americanism that irritates me - it's perfectly normal for terms to cross the Atlantic from time to time, in either direction. I just find the phrase overworked and irritating.

Any thoughts?

Well, if you don't like it, then write to News 24, they'll be so pleased to hear from you:

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You do realise this is a discussion forum don't you?

You're both right. Let's see what other forumers think, then I can write an email (or send a 3G pic of my annoyance) to the Beeb with a link to this thread.

I don't mind 'out' instead of 'from' as much as some Americanisms. It hasn't started over here yet, but I really hate when US newsreaders don't use the word 'on' or 'to' when talking chronologically:

'The president is in europe thru Monday'
'The Prime Minister was in Iraq, Tuesday'

Instead of

'The president is in europe until Monday' or 'through to Monday'
'The Prime Minister was in Iraq on Tuesday'

The one that I find grating is the omission of the word "of" after the word "couple".

eg "it will take a couple hours"

My pet hate is the use of "could care less" in place of "could not care less".

That's very much an Americanism; definitely not something that's migrated over here to any significant degree.

One that really p*sses me off is reporters' omission of 'and' when stating a date. Both of RTÉ's most recent Washington Corrs childishly adopted the most ridiculous Americanisms in the course of time over there, the worst being saying 'two thousand four' (2004) instead of two thousand and four.'

Drives me up the walls. What has washed across all media over here including the UK is the phrasing of dates as 'July 12th' instead of 'July the 12th' or 'the 12th of July'. It's probably not grammatically incorrect - anyone know? - but it is damn sure one of the most irritating things to hear. It's everywhere now - some of the most distingushed public speakers and broadcasters use it

Doesn't the news coming 'out of' originate from political reporting eg "the latest coming out of The White House this afternoon'?

It doesnt really annoy me though.

and another cliche (albeit non American as far as I know) that literally means the opposite of what it's used for - "cheap at half the price". Most things are cheap if you apply a 50% discount in my experience...

Yes, this is why I hate American news programmes so much, the lazy use of the language makes it tacky and their sets are just awful. I only hope British news programmes will not follow suit.