If you read part of this carefully crafted article “CNN.com – Police: Ludwig’s computers hold crime plans” you’ll note that there’s a building up of the story, there’s a climax that leads you to believe that the computer held exact plans… and then… then… they say, “The alleged plot was never carried out.”

Why can’t CNN, and other news agencies present the news about things like this:

The computer contained alleged plots that have not been discovered to have been carried out…

That would have been so much more forthright and useful. Instead I get to think one thing with a switcheroo ending. On top of that if people only make it through part of the article, which happens when people skim, they get only partial information because the truth was not put in the beginning of the article.

I’m not suggesting that what this teenager did was in anyway validated due to poor reporting, but I will say that poor reporting is an unpayable carreer, if I wanted to read bad news articles… I’d read some of the rumor blogs.