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Hat purple 806 Posted 5 years ago
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Please read the following sentence:The mayor claimed to have discussions with community leaders over to call implicit or explicit bias in news coverage, but the issue to the attention of media leaders."I am not a native speaker and I don't understand the last part of the sentence "but the issue to the attention of media leaders".Is the predicate missing?
  

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Is the predicate missing? There may be more missing than just that. It seems that someone did a cut-and-paste operation that completely destroyed the sentence.

— CalifJim

  • Is the predicate missing?
  • There may be more missing than just that.
  • It seems that someone did a cut-and-paste operation that completely destroyed the sentence.
  • I think it was supposed to be something like this: The mayor claimed to have had discussions with community leaders over the issue of implicit or explicit bias in news coverage, and whether to call it to the attention of media leaders.
  • This must necessarily be guesswork, of course.
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hat purple 806 Please read the following sentence:The mayor claimed to have discussions with community leaders over to call implicit or explicit bias in news coverage, but the issue to the attention of media leaders."I am not a native speaker and I don't understand the last part of the sentence "but the issue to the attention of media leaders"
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It is a badly written sentence. I think a word was omitted inadvertently.

The mayor claimed to have discussions with community leaders over not to call implicit or explicit bias in news coverage, but (to call) the issue to the attention of media leaders.

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