August 31, 2010
This time it is in UK. It begins an otherwise good article about how proposed budget cuts will disproportionately hit women with the line: “as Britain prepares for the deepest budget cuts in generations to tackle a crippling mound of public debt.”
How has it been determined that Britain faces a “crippling mound” of public debt? Certainly the markets have not made this determination since they are still willing to lend money to the UK at very low interest rates. This is simply the view of the writer and or editor, not a fact in the world.
A real newspaper would write: “as Britain prepares for the deepest budget cuts in generations to reduce its public debt.” This increases accuracy and saves words.
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