The News Media and Facts

I'm sorry, but I don't think it's too much to ask for the MSM to at the very least get simple facts straight. In an article unrelated to the intelligent design debate, USA Today writes

Last month, a federal judge ruled that the Dover, Pa., school board acted unconstitutionally in requiring science students to learn the "intelligent design" theory of life's origins along with evolution. Intelligent design is the idea that some forms of life are so complex that they must have been shaped by a designer who is left unspecified.

This is a ridiculous distortion for two reasons. First, USA Today does what the Dover board explicitly did not, namely identify intelligent design as a theory, I'm sure much to the chagrin of science-friendly readers. More importantly, the Dover policy, as I've reminded readers multiple times, did not require the teaching of intelligent design at all.

Is it really too demanding of professional reporters to at least have some basic clue of what they write about?