[Eala]

My reason for posting this good news was to highlight the difference between the headline ("Hundreds killed...") and the text of the item ("Up to 3,000 Iraqi fighters were killed..."). Until now it was my belief that the twisting of numbers so often seen in press reports was merely the left-liberal press "spinning" (a circumlocution for "lying").

Now, with sure proof here that they don't understand the difference between "hundreds" and "thousands," I'm less certain.

(Makes one wonder what they do teach in those journalism schools, beyond "Bush bad, Clinton good.")

[jocon307]

You are right to use the word "innumerate", but I'm not sure this is just a deficiency of the liberals. I often see things quantified badly, "dozens" when the things described number 40 or more, and therefore would be more precisely described as "scores", and "decimated" (to reduce by 10%) is only used properly be accident, I'm sure. I'm a bookkeeper, although I have no head for math (bookkeeping is just arithmetic!) and a great example of a person who has their job because of technology, if the electronic calculator hadn't been invented, I'd be doing something else. But I tell you, this verbal imprecision is most annoying.

[Grut]

I gotta say that "3000" figure looks awfully high to me; people aren't all that easy to kill. Maybe a couple of hundred.

[DoughtyOne]

Imagine that, during hostilities the enemies gets killed. This must be grounds for an indepth investigation.

[okie01]

(Makes one wonder what they do teach in those journalism schools, beyond "Bush bad, Clinton good.")

Note tag line.