Sloppy Reporting on Greece

It's all just revenue saved or created.

Usually, it's copy editors, not reporters, that write captions. Not sure you can use it as evidence about the attitudes of reporters.

Jack writes,
Usually, it's copy editors, not reporters, that write captions. Not sure you can use it as evidence about the attitudes of reporters.

Good point, Jack. But you've given me a challenge. I remember reporters talking this way all the time when I was in the Reagan administration. I'll look out for examples and I'll bet I'll have one within two weeks without much work.

Sometimes it's the journalist; it could be a language issue, meaning the writer's first language isn't English. But Jack is correct. The copy editor is the gatekeeper, though in these tough times not all newsrooms have them available. WSJ has no excuse.

Journalists not understanding the things they write about? What else is new?

David,

Concentrating on the 'deficit' is even more of a problem than it appears.

Not only are both taxes and spending separately detrimental to the economy, independent of their balance, but even if the government reduced spending by making some of its activities free by using volunteers and donations, those activities would still be incurring an opportunity cost as they allocated both human and material resources for the benefit of politicians rather than consumers.

Regards, Don

Or it's just a mistake ...

You want to bet I can't go through some of your posts and find a trivial mistake?

Ted writes:
Or it's just a mistake ...
You want to bet I can't go through some of your posts and find a trivial mistake?

Nope. People have already pointed out a number of trivial mistakes I've made and some not-so-trivial ones. But to the bigger point, that's why I've accepted Jack's challenge. I think that even if this was an innocent mistake, not everyone who does it is making an innocent mistake.