The curious incompetence of the press

How can you misreport the content of a 30-second Superbowl ad? The AP manages:

And a commercial by conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, perhaps the most anticipated ad of the night, hinted at a serious subject although it took a humorous tone too. Heisman winner Tim Tebow and his mother talk about her difficult pregnancy with him and how she was advised to end the pregnancy—implying an antiabortion message—but ended with Tebow tackling his mom and saying the family must be “tough.”

The ad didn’t say anything about how she was advised to end the pregnancy. The closest it came was “he almost didn’t make it into this world”.

Also, it wasn’t Tim but Pam that said the family must be tough. Aside from that, their reporting was spot on.

(Via Power Line.)

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