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  • Two reasons to hate on CNN for the Democratic debate they hosted last night in Las Vegas: Wolf Blitzer's line of questioning was manipulative sound bite mining, and they planted the offensive question about diamonds and pearls. (4) #
    11/16/2007
  • When I read the CNN story headlined "Misplaced 'not' in Arkansas law allows babies to marry" the other day, I knew something was fishy. Language Log comes to the rescue, criticizing the media for caring more about bad language than bad thinking.
    It's hardly credible that moving the negation somewhere else in the statute would succeed in producing a piece of law that could conceivably have represented the will of the people.
    (0) #
    10/13/2007
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