Are reporters stupid or do they think we are?
Today’s Albuquerque Journal carries an Associated Press story out of Boston which tells us that "Sen. John F. Kerry’s grade average at Yale University was virtually identical to President Bush’s record there, despite repeated portrayals of Kerry as the more intellectual candidate during the 2004 presidential campaign."
Grades equal intellectualism?
I suspect – though I don’t know - that the reporter knew better than to identify the two but could not resist the joy of oversimplification. The simpletons out there will get a kick out of this, he or she thought.
But the editors?
It’s a puzzlement.