Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Writing your own headlines (ignoring your own deadlines)

My parents, both nurses, recently moved to Columbia to work at the University Hospital there. Out of curiosity, I was browsing the Wikipedia article on Columbia, MO, when I came upon a link to an article entitled Columbia College ranked among “America’s Best Colleges”. I was intrigued, but upon reading it, I noticed an astounding difference between the meaning of the headline and the meaning of the story:

The college ranked 35th for the second consecutive year in the Best Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelor’s category for the Midwest region.

As I was reading, I honestly thought the number of qualifiers would never end.

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