I realize that this is mostly humor, but the news remains news and you'd server your readership better by explaining it better. We paid $230 million for the pier. How does that break down? I mean, the Army Corps of Engineers is on retainer, right? Their salaries are getting paid anyway and there probably isn't some πΌππ΅π²πΏ pier that dβ¦
I realize that this is mostly humor, but the news remains news and you'd server your readership better by explaining it better. We paid $230 million for the pier. How does that break down? I mean, the Army Corps of Engineers is on retainer, right? Their salaries are getting paid anyway and there probably isn't some πΌππ΅π²πΏ pier that didn't get built because they did this one. Concrete? I don't know prices, but that seems like an awful lot...
Moving on, we've got the billions for the (almost) non-existent charging stations. Were those billions ππ½π²π»π? Probably not, in which case it could have been half the amount or triple the amount and the story would have been the same. Same goes for the other billions for high-speed internet.
Don't get me wrong, the fun poked at the government for these fiascos is probably deserved, but journalists should kick the habit of using numbers to imply things that aren't known to be true.
I realize that this is mostly humor, but the news remains news and you'd server your readership better by explaining it better. We paid $230 million for the pier. How does that break down? I mean, the Army Corps of Engineers is on retainer, right? Their salaries are getting paid anyway and there probably isn't some πΌππ΅π²πΏ pier that didn't get built because they did this one. Concrete? I don't know prices, but that seems like an awful lot...
Moving on, we've got the billions for the (almost) non-existent charging stations. Were those billions ππ½π²π»π? Probably not, in which case it could have been half the amount or triple the amount and the story would have been the same. Same goes for the other billions for high-speed internet.
Don't get me wrong, the fun poked at the government for these fiascos is probably deserved, but journalists should kick the habit of using numbers to imply things that aren't known to be true.