Interesting journalism question
David Bernstein clears the fog from a New York Times editorial:
Justice Brown's record as a judge is also cause for alarm. She regularly stakes out extreme positions, often dissenting alone. In one case, her court ordered a rental car company to stop its supervisor from calling Hispanic employees by racial epithets. Justice Brown dissented, arguing that doing so violated the company's free speech rights.The Times implies here that Brown dissented alone. Actually, the decision was 4-3.
I'm just a lowly reader of newspapers and other media output, so I'm surely not qualified to answer this.
For all you journalists out there, was the Times:
1. Perfectly justified in strongly implying that the Avis dissent was a solo?
2. Lying when they strongly implied it?
or
3. Just careless when they strongly implied it?
(Link via the Instapundit.)
I know what I believe...