Gannett requested to investigate ethics of anti-gun personnel

Examiner ^ | 1/2/13 | David codrea

[ApplegateRanch]

I’m as illiterate as they are. (grumble mumble; heading back to the dictionary....)

[Cyber Liberty]

Yeah, that kinda popped out at me too. And these idiots write for a living.

[TurboZamboni]

In 1941, H.L. Mencken, himself a newspaperman most of his life, wrote:
“To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse – 10 times as ignorant, 10 times as unfair and tyrannical, 10 times as complaisant and pusillanimous, and 10 times as devious, hypocritical, disingenuous, deceitful, pharisaical, Pecksniffian, fraudulent, slippery, unscrupulous, perfidious, lewd and dishonest.”

[Scoutmaster]

Marvelous quote!

Thanks for the Mencken and my best to you, TZ.

[ez]

“to effect change” would be to bring about change where there was none. “to affect change” would be to cause a difference, or alteration in change that was already occuring. I assume they meant the former.