STUPIDITY IN PRINT, OR …

They’ll believe anything as long as we write it.

Okay, if you read here you know I rail against the mainstream media on a fairly regular basis for their inability to report, preferring to pontificate. So here’s a good one:

“Iraq Violence Kills 56 Iraqis; Wounds Many More”

If I ever handed this into a professor or editor anywhere in the world in order to obtain either a mark or a paycheck, I’d be booted out either’s door faster than you can say “Tom Cruise is a cultist.”

Wounds “many more?” Obviously this is a result of the media’s prior fascination with the former occupant of the White House, because that surely is Clinton-esque semantics.

Let’s define wound. Let’s define many. Is many some, a few, five, three, 40, 100, 1000?

And everyone involved — the person who wrote the story, the person who edited it, the person who wrote the headline, and the person who put it on the wire — is bringing home paychecks.

Let’s hear it for accuracy in media.