Mayor Orders Remedial Math For The Daily News

The Daily News, so hot and bothered about the Mayor's ticketing spree from last year, excited proclaimed that the city's ticket revenues would be $1 billion. Not so fast: As it turns out, while the city's revenues will still be 30% higher than 2002's at $540 million, $540 million is still, oh, about $460 million away from $1billion. Of course, the Post gleed at this news, pointing out that the DN took off the story and image from their website. The Mayor said, "The Daily News unfortunately made a mathematical mistake. I assume tomorrow you'll see a very large correction."

The Daily News tries to explain it with "calculations were tripped up by our use of some incorrect data, then we made matters worse with a mathematical gaffe." Blah blah blah. Gothamist tried that "we accidentally carried a one" excuse before and it doesn't cut it.

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By Jen Chung in News on January 30, 2004 9:05 AM

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matt

I kind of like using "glee" as a verb and may consider incorporating it into my vocab. Thx, Gothamist.

Phil

Yeah, that was pretty irrepsonsible on the part of the DN. Still, I hardly expect them to take crap from the NY Post, which, in terms of journalistic integrity, is about half a step above the National Enquirer.

I mean, remember last year when the Post saw fit to publish a cover photo of the French and German UN Security Council reps superimposed with giant weasel heads?

Y'know, just to put things in context.