What is more maddening

What is more maddening, reading a headline in the mainstream press (AP) that you know is lying or finding out from the Internet how really wrong the mainstream press is?

In some strange way, I am sympathetic to Lolita C. Baldur, the woman who wrote the nationally syndicated Associated Press lie.  She is in a profession that is failing, jobs are evaporating rapidly because newspapers are run by incompetent boobs and the pro-socialist credentials that most journalists carry are becoming more embarrassing everyday.

Here is what Lolita said: "...the number of Army deserters this year (is) showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003."  I know that a rise from 5% to 9% would be an 80% increase...that is the kind of small number mumbo-jumbo the press publishes twice a day.

That is not the case with Lolita's and the AP's lie.  Remember a lie is the intent to deceive.  Lolita and the AP are lying on a big scale.

The desertion rate in 1944 during WWII was 6.5%.  During Korea its was 2.2% and during the Vietnam War the desertion rate climbed again to 5.2%.  In the Iraq War, as any honest person would figure with a volunteer army, the desertion rate is less that one percent, less than 1%.

The AP turned this trivial 1% number into a national tragedy. To do that, Lolita C. Baldur had to lie and AP had to join her in the lie.  The 2007 data shows .9% of soldiers deserted, that is nine-tenths of one percent.   Nine-tenths is up from 0.7, seven-tenths of one percent in 2003.  But it is not up from the three years before the Iraq War when the average was the same nine-tenths: 0.9%

So what gets you madder..knowing that the mainstream media are deceptive or learning from the Internet how really deceptive they are?