To be fair, the Times primarily recruits from Yale

as do all the “best” hospitals; Choose wisely

POSTED ON DECEMBER 2, 2023 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN MEDIA

THE TIMES CAN’T MULTIPLY

This New York Times correction is one for the books. It raises, once again, two questions: 1) How dumb are today’s reporters? and 2) Does the Times actually employ any editors? Because it is hard to imagine that two people collaborated on this goof:

An article on Page 36 this weekend about the recent antitrust actions against the chicken suppliers industry by the Justice Department misstates the profits that suppliers to Kentucky Fried Chicken would have made on 400 million pounds of chicken if they had increased their prices by 10 cents per pound. It is $40 million, not $4 billion.

More Mencken quotes here. I particularly like this one: