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

[Erick Andrews]

On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 16:58:38 -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:

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

"Bilbo Baggins"?  (With a "B"?)  Don't know who he is, but sounds like
a Yogi Berra wannabe.

Anyway, now you've got me goin'.  Guess I'll forward my spam to Z-D.

-- 
Erick Andrews