"DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ in the newspaper," goes the old saying, but we pretty much do anyway. Joel Belz has a good short essay on that in the May 31 World. He notes that despite being a sports reporter and seeing how the newspaper made mistakes almost every time he phoned in names and numbers, when he read other sections of the paper, he couldn't help believing that what he read was accurate.

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