Computers More Accurate than Pencil and Paper

The New York Times is attacking the funding cuts for the Census Bureau, snidely implying that the figures to be used for assigning congressional seats will be untrustworthy because the census workers won't have handheld computers to record the information. This is a tactic which the media have adopted, sowing doubt on everything we are told by the government, and it's a dangerous one. If we dismiss what the government tells us, why should be trust the media any more? They are all the powerful elites. There isn't much difference between them in the minds of ordinary people. (Via Best of the Web)