Friday, April 28, 2006

Sometimes the First Paragraph Is All You Need to Read

Like this story, for example:

The U.S. war on terrorism has made the world safer, the State Department's counterterrorism chief said on Friday, despite more than 11,000 terrorist attacks worldwide last year that killed 14,600 people.
That's the whole story there, isn't it? You get the spin; you get the reality that contradicts it. You don't have to go to the third graph on the jump page to find what the real story is. Our press could do a lot worse (and they do) than using this as a model.

[That's all, folks]