Sloppy Journalism

[rocksizedheart]

Journalism on the mortgage crisis annoys me. "As many as one in four houses may now be underwater." Now, does that mean that one in four houses with a mortgage is underwater, or does that in total, one in four American houses is underwater? What does that even mean, if it is the latter? Believe it or not, not all American houses have a mortgage. A

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[rocksizedheart]

Granted, my comments may have been a bit harsh, but it still seems to me that in writing about that figure, you'd realize that not all houses had a mortgage.

[thornghost]

"Bad" journalism is just an end result of the times we live in. I'm not so certain that the piece you linked should be considered sloppy or bad, but there is a lot of that kind of work going around