All Half-Truths: How the Media Misunderstands, Misuses, and Abuses Statistics

Edward Hopper, Two Comedians (1966). Image courtesy of Sotheby’s.

It is ironic that the United States looks to the awards made possible by the endowment of Joseph Pulitzer for their standard of excellence in journalism (and, indeed, beyond journalism), given that at the height of the war between Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal in 1895–98, the two papers could be found competing over…