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Perhaps I am losing my optimistic outlook that people are basically good, generally smart and usually engage their minds in life, but I get a little disappointed the more I am on the web and notice that there are so many basic errors. I find it ironic that the mainstream media talk about bloggers being fundamentally unreliable and unprofessional in their reporting and then the New York times offers this which was a decent article but it included this “‘Were not terrorists, were not subversives, were just decent dads'” as a quote from Batman’s accomplice. I am fairly certain that what he said was “We are not terrorists” rather than “{We} were not terrorists, but today we decided to be terrorists.” I know I’m nit-picking but they have editors and reviewer who are supposed to do that, yet it got published the wrong way. Why would I expect them to get their facts just right when they cannot even catch the most basic spelling and grammer before publication – and this is the New York Times, not some small town paper running short on staff.

9/14 P.S. – Not surprisingly the article has been corrected now, but it still got to publication before it made it to the spelling and grammar department.