Guess How Many Fingers I’m Holding Up
I spend too much time reading news. I just need to let it go, but I seem to be addicted. And then I find my blood starts to boil because I read the same story in more than one place, but the details are different.
Just yesterday, I read about how Southwest Airlines is grounding 44 of their planes. I mean, 42. I mean 38.
I don’t know what the real number is and, honestly, it doesn’t actually matter but I feel like something as simple as this should be easy to get right. The company does put out press releases for this sort of thing, don’t they? So all that would be needed would be to read the thing, right? Maybe not even read the whole thing - just scan for a number.
Why put in the number at all if you don’t know for sure what it is? Why not do one of those ‘more than’ things like “More than 25 planes have been grounded.” It helps give it a serious tone which seems to be what they were going for.
I was just whining to my mom today that news articles don’t contain enough details for me to form a knowledgeable opinion about most of the things they like to write about. Despite that, I’ll take no details over incorrect or made up ones any day of the week.
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