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It's been a couple of months since I've seen a good example of bad journalism, but this article had my attention from the title: "Chevy Volt priced in the US: Cheaper than a Prius". This article was posted over on CNET UK's "Crave Blog", so at first I gave the title a pass thinking that the author is comparing the US price of the Volt to the UK price of the Prius. But the author never actually states what he is comparing the Volt and Prius pricing to, so the general reader is left to assume that he is comparing US Volt pricing to US Prius pricing. It's almost as if CNET's writer is comparing the UK £ price of the Volt (£21,000) to the US $ price of the Prius.
The grave offense comes in the 3rd article where the author uses the post-tax credit Volt price of $33,500 to state that the Volt "undercuts its all-electric rival, the Nissan Leaf, by almost $2,000." By coming to this conclusion, the writer must be comparing the post-tax credit price of the Volt to the pre-tax credit price of the LEAF. About 3 minutes worth of Googling would have corrected that information.
There are a couple of other small factual errors in the article, but overall this piece on CNET makes me wonder who at CNET is proofreading these articles before they are posted? Apparently no one.
Source: CNET UK
