Reading Comprehension

AJ Strata has a lesson on reading comprehension and the lack thereof in the media. What the just-released Senate intelligence committee partial report actually says as opposed to the way the media and politicians are spinning it to say is very interesting.

Now I know why journalists get their stories so wrong so often – they lack basic reading comprehension skills. With all the hoopla about the Senate Intelligence report supposedly saying there were no ties between Saddam and Terrorists (despite Iraq documents which log the training of thousands of terrorists, and notes reqarding meetings with Al Qaeda) it might behoove people to read them for themselves (WMD here, Terrorists here). One thing people should know is the terrorist related volume is NOT definitive or conclusive. Why? Well I’ll let the report speak for itself (from the WMD volume):

Go over and read the rest.

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