The audience isn't an idiot. The audience can figure out that the mayor didn't have an actual count. They reported what officials said, with no basis in fact to question that in any way. Are they not supposed to report it?

We're not trying to count pennies here, but it is what it is and we need to figure out how to pay for it. Whatever it costs at the end of the day, although it's relevant in a lot of ways because of the dollars, it's really irrelevant because of the importance of the issue.

She really did like me, the idiot.

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

Moose and black bears both have been reported in a variety of color phases.

What made the voice of the people somehow less important than the paid professional journalist?