By Marguerite Spears Santa Monica
I am a daily reader of the Press and am very happy that we have a daily paper in Santa Monica.
However, I was disturbed to see the sensationalist headline “Dropouts tend to be criminals,” on Friday, Dec. 14. It should more properly have read “Criminals tend to be dropouts.” The article itself was more measured and did not substantiate that all dropouts tend to be criminals, nor even a high percentage do. It did seem to show that a high percentage of criminals tend to be dropouts and ignored all together all the scandals of white-collar crime.
Please don’t sensationalize your headlines in the manner of the tabloids instead of the real newspaper that you are.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 21, 2007. Read the original PDF.