April 17, 2007

21%...Vast Majority...What's the Difference?

That's a question that the NYT apparently had some difficulty answering in a recent article on a Florida clemency board decision. "For the record.":

An article on April 6 about a decision by Florida’s clemency board to let most felons easily regain their voting rights after prison misstated the proportion of blacks among the state’s disenfranchised ex-offenders. About 21 percent of the estimated 950,000 ex-offenders are black, according to the Sentencing Project, a liberal advocacy group in Washington — not “the vast majority.”
I suggest everyone in America check this page at least once a day. Media Matters?

By Good Lt. at 02:16 AM | |