Monkeys Typing Shakespeare

In journalism class (years and years ago) we were taught to keep things simple.. Keep the numbers simple, keep the words simple.

So, it makes wonder if the article that just caught my eye was outsourced to another country or if they simply forgot that rule. Mostly it makes me wonder where in the world a person would write that someone endeavors to do anything?

“The Emergency Unit endeavored to remove a dangling chunk of glass poking from a high-rise window that remained after the pane fell.”

A far more simple way to phrase that would have been, “The Emergency Unit worked…” or “The Emergency Unit was on the scene…” Small words… But “endeavored?”
Now this may not be monkey business at all. But I recall reading some time back that a Southern California newspaper was going to outsource their news team to India.

Having dealt with my fair share of India-based tech support I can say that they certainly endeavor to assist me in finding a most satisfactory solution to my problem. The problem that they are extremely sorry I am experiencing in the first place and hope that I will be patient with them while my record is retrieved but, in the meantime, can I please reboot my computer. That is, if I know how.

So, the real question is did WNBC outsource their news, is a writer getting fancy OR did is the author’s first language not American English? Because, how will our children learn if the words are too big for their eyes? Or, as my ADD-addled brain would say, “oooh, look at that shiny mailbox.”