[greeneyes]

Well, yes and no. If one adds the guns and drugs together and states that is the most lucrative then human trafficking is second. However it was meant, it is not clear, so criticism is well founded.

Newspapers in this day and age would not have made it past our high school student editor, let along the Journalism Teacher and sponsor.

[Svartalfiar]

Well, yes and no. If one adds the guns and drugs together and states that is the most lucrative then human trafficking is second. However it was meant, it is not clear, so criticism is well founded.
Newspapers in this day and age would not have made it past our high school student editor, let along the Journalism Teacher and sponsor.

Well, the way I said it is the only way that makes sense to me. Drugs and guns are pretty clearly each their own separate category. If drugs and/or guns are, say, #1 and #3, then why combine them? Just say the trafficking is #2 after whichever is #1. OR, if drugs/guns are #2 and #3, but combine to #1, why not just say trafficking is #1?

But I agree, journalism standards have sharply fallen. Over half the articles I read have some kind of spelling or grammatical mistake in them. Missed by the 'journalist', his proofreader, and the editor. There's a couple articles I've seen that I thought came out of Google translate, they were so bad...