In a story published Thursday on job cuts, the Globe-News stated:
The exact number of jobs eliminated was not released.The writer of the story, you see, was unable to get the exact number of layoffs from the anonymous functionary at the massive corporation that cut those jobs. Which might be understandable, except that the headline of the story was:
Globe-News eliminates about 20 jobsSeriously? I realize that investigative journalism isn't really the Globe-News's, um, thing, but really? They weren't able to call up themselves and ask if it was 19 or 21 jobs? What, was the anonymous functionary's job eliminated before he could provide the number? Or was the writer's job cut before he could fact check his piece?
Rock. Freaking. Bottom.
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