The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
News of the Tautological
“Dalmatian Horse Spotted on Dartmoor”–headline, Daily Telegraph (London), April 13
Great Moments in Journalism
“Emmy Award-winning journalist Mara Schiavocampo is the Digital Correspondent for NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams, the first reporter of her kind in network television,” according to her Huffington Post bio. In a post there on the care of female prison inmates’ children, Schiavocampo writes:
Critics argue the Department of Corrections shouldn’t be in the childcare business, given that their primary role is for punishment and rehabilitation. Plus, the programs are expensive, about $24,000 a year per infant. That’s taxpayer money, though in some cases the programs are covered by government grants.
We’re not sure what kind of reporter Schiavocampo is the first of, but if she’s the first who thinks that “government grants” are not “taxpayer money,” we hope she’s also the last.
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