Reporters who quote ums and ahs only make themselves look bad

No, but you would typically remove entire mangled sentences or allow them plenty of restarts/takes if it’s a vox pop interview and they ask for it. And if someone really is just going uuiuiihhhhhjhhh for 20 valuable seconds or whatever, yeah, just fade that crap out.

Consider:

“When transcribed, filler speech a listener would subconsciously ignore turns into text the reader cannot.”

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