The Huffington Post had an article about GE and NBC executives having a dinner with the top brass of CNBC to discuss if the latter is too negative concerning Obama. Normally an article like this is like water off a duck's back with me. But a statement caught my eye:Have a nice day."The dinner was to thank CNBC for a job well done in our in-depth reporting throughout the financial crisis. As far as our coverage is concerned, we are built for balance and we are unabashedly pro-investor." (emphasis mine)Duh!
Classic OXYMORON.
How can you be balanced and unabshedly pro something at the same time!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Another oxymoron is discovered! (... not quite as exciting as a new sub-atomic particle, but oxymoron hunting isn't a bad pastime!)
From Captain's Log:
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they're "balanced" between being "unabashed" and being "pro-investor"?
ReplyDeletethat'd be my cynical reading of it. hence not technically an oxymoron, but a sophistry of such jesuitical complexity as to be nearly theological...