Gov't says Small pox "ir-radiated" according to CNN

[patrice]

Elaine someone in D.C.

[Drum]

1. I wish they'd say "eradicated" instead. nt

[patrice]

3. Perhaps the "reporter" doesn't know that word.

or the editor, or whoever writes their stuff for them.

[Drum]

4. heh heh heh....

Yeah, deadlines and all...who wants to do a second "take," for the sake of ole Clarity?

[patrice]

7. I'm lucky; I'm a technical writer; I get to be obsessive about Clarity.

I enjoy it.

[Strelnikov_]

2. Another High Point In Journalism

". . .now the World Health Organization declared in 1980 that smallpox had been completely erradiated . . irradiated, but Pres. Chimp has said . . ."

Elaine Kehano - News Reader Extraordinaire

[kestrel91316]

6. Oh for crying out loud. What a moran.

[alfredo]

5. The last case was several decades ago in Ethiopia.