[SkyMarshal]

More likely just run-of-the-mill journalistic statistics ignorance, which seems commonplace in US media these days, combined with deadline and story quota pressures.

[tinus_hn]

I love how you’re accusing a journalist of lying, as a defense of journalists being accused of lying. ‘Oh well, that’s just run-of-the-mill journalistic statistics ignorance’

[bobthepanda]

I don’t think it’s necessarily secret that since Craigslist traditional newsrooms have hemorrhaged money and staff.

Sometimes things are malicious, sometimes things are ignorant, and sometimes it’s a mix. Is trying to be more specific about causes a “defence”?