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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 116618" data-attributes="member: 27">One of the local TV stations has a slogan for their newscasts: "We've Got You Covered".  They repeat it incessantly.  It drives me absolutely up the wall because it is a grammatical nightmare.  You expect me to trust your news reporting when you can't even choose a proper slogan?  I could get behind "We Have You Covered" or ideally "We Have It Covered," or even "We Got It Covered" (though that's not really proper English, either).  But "We've Got You Covered" is saying "We Have Got" which is terrible.  Maybe they feel that using improper grammar endears them to the audience? In that case, just call it "Eyeball News at 10" or something equally off-the-wall.</blockquote>