New York Times headline (11/15/10):
U.S. Plan Offers Path to Ending Afghan Combat
More accurate headline:
U.S. Plan Extends Afghan Combat by Three Years
Nov
15
2010
NYT Sees the Bright Side of Unending War
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About Jim NaureckasExtra! Magazine Editor Since 1990, Jim Naureckas has been the editor of Extra!, FAIR's bimonthly journal of media criticism. He is the co-author of The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, and co-editor of The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the '90s. He is also the co-manager of FAIR's website. He has worked as an investigative reporter for the newspaper In These Times, where he covered the Iran-Contra scandal, and was managing editor of the Washington Report on the Hemisphere, a newsletter on Latin America. Jim was born in Libertyville, Illinois, in 1964, and graduated from Stanford University in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in political science. Since 1997 he has been married to Janine Jackson, FAIR's program director. You can follow Jim on Twitter at @JNaureckas.
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One regrets the financial plight of the NYT, but one wishes they wouldn't choose to make cutbacks on the copy desk. Apart from an alarming increase in typos, a disease afflicting the mass media in general, the Grey Lady now suffers from many headlines, subheads and picture captions that are either misleading or, as in this case, express the opposite of what the subject at hand conveys. What's worse, in my view, is that this amateurish meandering prattle often has a distinct neoconservative bias.