Media don't do arithmetic

[Dr Jekyll]

https://www.redstate.com/kiradavis/2020/03/06/7942...

[markjmd]

Some thoughtful analysis from you there, OP. Can you share a little of the detail of how you came to your conclusions?

[LimSlip]

markjmd said:

Some thoughtful analysis from you there, OP. Can you share a little of the detail of how you came to your conclusions?

It's pretty obvious if you read the article

restate said:

Mara Gay – NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER – was on MSNBC with Brian Williams – YES, THAT BRIAN WILLIAMS – when he brought up this tweet that put it “all in perspective” for the longtime new analyst and noted lover of fish tales. You may imagine that at some point in this video one of them thinks about the math. They did not.

[anonymous-user]

Schoolboy error by a few people!

Still, the overall figure seems a preposterous amount of money to spend but I assume it's his money and his prerogative.
And 500 million just spent in their economy.

[Dont Panic]

Well he could have given each person a little over a dollar each not the 1 million suggested.

[amusingduck]

article said:

I’ve started this sentence three times already. I hardly even know how to describe what I saw on social media tonight. In the most bad-at-math tweet I’ve ever seen in my entire twitter life, Mekita Rivas – A WRITER WITH BYLINES IN GLAMOUR MAGAZINE AND THE WASHINGTON POST – lamented that Bloomberg’s half a million in ad money could have provided one million dollars for every American and still have money to spare.

Get it right for fks sake!!!

[tangerine_sedge]

Ffs another stpost thread. How difficult is it to give the thread a meaningful title, then add a paragraph to describe the story, or at least comment on it.

Instead we get a meaningless title and a link to god knows what website.

\grump