Wednesday, March 14, 2007
The Media - All The 'News'? by Thomas Sowell
"Creative definitions" equals created news...
At GOPUSA.com, Thomas Sowell warns us about the "news" we read:
"The latest in a long line of New York Times editorials disguised as 'news' stories was a recent article suggesting that most American women today do not have husbands. Partly this was based on census data -- but much more so on creative definitions.
The Times defined 'women' to include females as young as 16 and counted widows, who of course could not be widows unless they had once had a husband. Wives whose husbands were away in the military, or in prison, were also counted among women not living with a husband.
With such creative definitions, it turned out that 51 percent of 'women' were not living with a husband. That made it 'most' women and created a 'news' story suggesting that these women were not married. In reality, only one fourth of women have never married, even when you count girls as young as 16."
