Wednesday, September 17, 2008

UPI Makes A Gaffe...


The United Press International picked up on the Los Angeles Times tomato article. Trouble is, they changed one fact, giving the whole story a different meaning.

Instead of stating I had grown 11,000 tomatoes in 2007, UPI changed it so that I had grown 11,000 pounds of tomatoes in 2007, filing it in the category of “Odd News”

<http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/09/16/Tomato_mania_takes_over_yard/UPI-45631221621610/>

Then the Times of The Internet copied the story. <http://www.timesoftheinternet.com/4119.html>

Nope, not 11,000 pounds of tomatoes.



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