{"id":241,"date":"2005-01-01T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T11:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theanchoressonline.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/01\/the-ny-times-cannot-be-trusted-with-numbers\/"},"modified":"2015-03-13T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:49:09","slug":"the-ny-times-cannot-be-trusted-with-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2005\/01\/01\/the-ny-times-cannot-be-trusted-with-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"The NY Times Cannot be Trusted with Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family:arial\">Or, apparently, with simple things like DATES. Check this out, it\u2019s really deplorable:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tigerhawk.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/flyspecking-new-york-times.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">Tigerhawk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial\"> takes a minute to actually look at the analysis of the post-election stock market surge and notes that through selectivity, the Times manages to underplay the staggering rise in the DJIA\u2026that its growth is actually 47% higher than the Times claims. 47%!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oh\u2026and, did you know that Harry Truman was elected president in 1944 and Teddy Roosevelt was elected in 1900? Really! <br><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><\/span><br><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><em>Whaddya mean, I\u2019m wrong, it\u2019s in the freaking New Yawk Times! You know! The PAPER OF RECORD!<\/em> <\/span><br><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><\/span><br><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">The NY Times can no longer be trusted with numbers, or with dates. It cannot be trusted with much of anything. The NY Times runs with scissors and needs constant supervision or it will routinely descend into self-and-other-destructive behavior. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">Egad, what a disgrace that paper has become. How far are the mighty fallen.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><\/span><br><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">My 15 year old could do better. Hattip to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">Instapundit.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"> <\/span><br><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><\/span><br><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">Also, while we\u2019re talking deplorable, check out this Northwester University professor\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/cuanas.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/northwestern-university-professor-is.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">naked anti-semitism<\/a> via CUANAS and <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\/?entry=14139_Radical_Islam_Apologist_at_Northeastern_U#comments\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">LGF<\/a>. From what I have read in the past, Northwestern doesn\u2019t have many conservative instructors on staff. Has anti-semites, though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, apparently, with simple things like DATES. Check this out, it\u2019s really deplorable: Tigerhawk takes a minute to actually look at the analysis of the post-election stock market surge and notes that through selectivity, the Times manages to underplay the staggering rise in the DJIA\u2026that its growth is actually 47% higher than the Times claims. 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