It ranks with the famous Fox Butterworth gem:
Every now and then a headline gives you a glimpse inside the mind of the media to compare with the classic of 1997, to a New York Times story, subsequently repeated with variations, by Fox Butterfield: "Crime Rates are Falling, but Prisons Keep on Filling." This gave rise to what the great James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal continues to call the Fox Butterfield fallacy — a form of obtuseness caused by liberal assumptions about the world. In this case it is the assumption that falling crime rates and rising rates of incarceration could have nothing to do with one another.
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Funny you mention Taranto. I am a follower of his “Best of the Web” columns and already sent the headline into his mailbox. I occasionally contribute items to his column...perhaps 6-8 times/year.