June 14, 2005

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Is USA Today taking a cue from Drudge?

    By Jack Grant

Teresa at Technicalities deconstructs an article on traffic fatalities from USA Today that has a screaming headline unjustified by the subsequent text, showing that a news report on even as apolitical a topic as traffic statistics seems to have drama-spin added, likely simply to grab the eyeballs (and as a consequence, the revenues).

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Posted by Jack Grant at 16:35 on 14 June 2005
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Thanks for the link Jack! Yeah, it's just the kind of story to get me really annoyed. *grin*

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