A couple of days ago I vented a bit about the fact that the New London Day gave equal coverage to a large anti-war and a small pro-war demonstration. More of the same in the Times today, though perhaps just through sloppy editing.
On the front page of the Times, there’s a picture of a woman at a cemetery. The last sentence on the picture’s caption (newpaper only) reads:
Also marking Memorial Day weekend were groups for and against the Iraq war who meet every Sunday in Lewes, Del. (Page A9)
My on-line dictionary has two definitions of the word group that might apply:
An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together; an aggregation;
A number of individuals or things considered together because of similarities.
From the article (Silence Speaks Volumes) we find that there are actually three “groups”, one consisting of “dozens” of people protesting the war, an offshoot of that group of at least 10 people concentrating on impeachment, and this “group”:
On one side of the street, Jeff Broderick stands alone while he holds a sign. “Their only plan is to cut and run again. It never ever works,†the sign says.
Now apparently, many moons ago, there actually was a group of pro-war demonstrators, but they have long since disappeared, leaving Mr. Broderick as the lone holdout.
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