An Optimist Would Say Half Stay Awake

The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

An Optimist Would Say Half Stay Awake
“Half of Swedish Pilots Fall Asleep in the Cockpit”–headline, TheLocal.se, Oct. 19

Other Than That, the Story Was Accurate
“An article on Monday about a proposed engineering graduate school in New York City contained a number of errors. Because of an editing error, the article misidentified the university that has dropped plans for a partnership with City University to develop the school. It is Columbia University, not Stanford. Also because of an editing error, the article referred incorrectly to a partnership between Stanford and City College, a branch of City University. Such a partnership is indeed planned; it is not the case that Stanford officials said last week that the university would not enter such a partnership. The article also described incorrectly an unrelated 7-million-square-foot expansion that Columbia University is planning. A portion of the expansion that will be devoted to studying the brain will occupy about 7 percent of the space, not ‘much of it.’ And the article referred incorrectly to the teaching of engineering at New York University. The university had a school of engineering at its Bronx campus until 1973; it is not the case that N.Y.U. did not have an engineering school ‘until 2008.’ “–New York Times, Oct. 18

We Are the 99%
“First Lady Asks for $10,000 Photo Fee”–headline, WMAQ-TV website (Chicago), Oct. 18

Who Knew Ahmadinejad Had a Blog?
“Iran’s Supreme Leader Warns Ahmadinejad’s Post Could Be Removed”–headline, FoxNews.com, Oct. 19

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