All too common these days, even in the so-called 'quality' press (like the
Sunday Times mixing up millions and billions in the Gulf oil spill being
just one recent). And no doubt when pointed out to them they would shrug
their shoulders and say it doesn't matter. Maybe it doesn't, what they
write today is hanging on the nail in the smallest room tomorrow.
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> As an editor/reporter, I am often embarassed by my younger colleagues'
> failure
> to do the most basic research. I can't decide if this writer thinks the
> MGA
> is the "first" MG because of the "A," or if he thinks WWII ended in the
> mid
> '50s.
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