Afternoon Baseball

My area paper is the Connecticut Post, which is based out of Bridgeport. It's not a bad paper at all, as it pays attention to local issues and has broken a ton of political scandals. However, it's editing is at times, nicely put, incomplete.
Today is just one small example. The front page talks about this state legislator, Ernest Newton, who just resigned amid scandal. The article is about his lawyers meeting with federal prosecutors in hopes of reaching a deal. The headline, though, is "Newton's lawyers plotting." Plotting sounds like there's a murder, or at least some crime, being planned, and probably in secret. It's a tough space to fit words in, but it certainly doesn't make his lawyers sound like savory people.

The other is a small wire article on President Bush, with his statment that tax raises (or rescinding tax cuts) wouldn't be necessary in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and that cuts in spending would do the trick. Pretty obvious position for Bush; he's had the same opinion everytime the question's ever been brought up. But the Post writes for a headline, "Bush rules out tax cuts to pay for reconstruction."
Totally contradicts the first sentence of the story.

It's not the end of the world, but it just annoys me. The first is not cut-and-dried, but I'm overly cautious with that stuff. The second is just inattention to detail, and that's worse.