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CCJ | "On the Media" | NYT | Portfolio.com
The Jan. 13 story "stunned me -- not because people in the 18- to 34-year-old demographic, some of whom are service members, commit murder," writes Maj. Bob Bateman. "That is not really news, is it? What threw me was fact that the NYT referred to this as a "quiet phenomenon," which is -- what -- two steps down from 'subtle epidemic'? Yet it did so without noting that the 121 killings came from a population (of veterans of Iraq/Afghanistan) of about 700,000." || Listen to Bateman on "On the Media." || Clark Hoyt: "Questionable statistics muddy the message." || Related Zubin Jelveh post.
> Butterworth: Critics of the series are statistically challenged, too (Stats)