When considering the possible variations of cadence and stresses that could be placed upon such a sentence when spoken, I confess that I could envision myself as saying the same sentence in the way it was written in the article. That being said, I think also that there's a strong chance that the article was not written as precisely and true to the original statement as it could have been....it has been decades since newspapers were regarded as bastions of reference-quality English, inhabited by fierce protectors of truth and accuracy, and so I guess that this sort of thing doesn't exactly rise to the level of a passionate objection for me since I have such low expectations of 'news' papers in terms not only of content but in the quality of the written word to begin with. When I can pick up any American newspaper and find multiple grammatical or spelling errors on every page I'm afraid that my expectations in this arena are not great. This dismal track record, coupled with the brazen and unabashed embrace of Leftist political agendas while professing objectivity leaves me as one who doesn't expect precision or accuracy of any sort from such sources.