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387. Who decides?

By Joel Jacobsen

The New York Times website this evening runs the same story three times, although nothing indicates that the reporters or editors understood it was the same story.  First, with a color photograph of a costumed man statistically likely to die young, is this headline: "Ruling May Blunt Sports' Anti-Doping Plans."  Click on it and the verb mysteriously transforms to "weaken."  Most mysteriously of all, the Firefox tab uses the verb "undermine." Michael S. Schmidt's first two paragraphs read: A federal court ruling has jeopardized [and not blunted, weakened or undermined] the National Football League's ability to enforce its drug-testing program and raised significant doubts about the programs of other professional sports in the United States...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on September 18, 2009 (boomark / email).