The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
News of the Tautological
“Huge Study Finds Risk Factors Do In Fact Predict Risk”–headline, CardioBrief.org, Jan. 25
Other Than That, the Story Was Accurate
“(Removes words ‘and at times has had difficulty paying his mortgage,’ paragraph 7; removes ‘he did not make payments on a $100,000-plus student loan’ and instead states ‘he did not pay down the balance of a $100,000-plus student loan,’ paragraph 10; removes ‘he was caught up in an Internal Revenue Service Investigation’ and instead states ‘his name surfaced in an Internal Revenue Service investigation,’ paragraph 12; removes ‘voted against Sonia Sotomayor, Obama’s Supreme Court nominee’ and instead states ‘opposed President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor,’ paragraph 41; removes ‘voted against Obama’s healthcare overhaul’ and instead states ‘opposed Obama’s healthcare overhaul,’ paragraph 41)”–Reuters (corrections to a hit piece on Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio), Jan. 26
(NOTE: The above excerpts are from the 1/26/12 BOTW archives.)
For more “Best of the Web” click here and look for the “Best of the Web Today” link in the middle column below “Today’s Columnists.”
