[Am-info] ZD's spin on it...

[John J. Urbaniak]

  http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-831722.html

"In the brief filed with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the
Justice Department said it had received 30,000 responses, 1,250
unrelated to the case. Roughly half the comments were against the
settlement, 7,500 were in favor of the deal, and 7,000 expressed no
sentiment either way. "

Note the clever wording:  you have to read and re-read the last sentence
and mentally do the math to come up with the truth.  "Roughly half" of
30,000 is 15,000, but good old MS-sucking Ziff-Davis couldn't bring
themselves to print it clearly.

They could have said "Roughly half ... opposed the deal, roughly one
quarter favored it ..."

Or "15,000 opposed the deal, 7,500 favored it ..."

Ziff-Davis sounds like Bilbo Baggins when he says at the party, "I don't
know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than
half of you half as well as you deserve."

John