WTF are you talking about? I wrote "but for."But for PBS and NPR and their affiliates, news organizations these days have one primary agenda: profit. The days of the news division of a major network not being construed as a revenue center are gone. But for the non-profit news organizations, everything a media company does is to maximize profit/revenue, and the only way to do that is increase viewership.
No, I mean "but for" to mean "except for."PBS and NPR do not have "profit". By definition.
Did you intend the word "but" to mean "except"?
That's what I just asked. Might want to watch wording in future.
But for PBS and NPR and their affiliates,
But for the non-profit news organizations
I'm talking about ambiguity. Write clearly so that a phrase doesn't look like its own opposite.
There is no ambiguity to "but for." It means one and only one thing. Click the link I provided for "but for."
If it wasn't ambiguous I wouldn't have corrected it.
"But" can be taken to mean either the archaic "except" or for what it looks like at first glance, "however". Usually this would be followed by a comma but not necessarily. So that's two things.
Hence, ambiguous.