While some of it may be sloppy reporting, I contend part of the problem is that they need to simplify the points they want to make, let go of the jargon.
"Grounds for discipline would be unethical behavior, fabrication, sloppy reporting or unwillingness to acknowledge the severity of the problem, and none of those things happened in this case."
"Are you going to say that you're being persecuted by a sleazy tabloid journal with no regard for truth, gross negligence and sloppy reporting?"
A subsequent inquiry, led by Lord Hutton, a former judge, accused the BBC of sloppy and inaccurate reporting and "defective" editorial supervision.
Very sloppy reporting given that one would have to travel quite some distance to find rocks in downtown Oakland, which is a concrete jungle.
But as these events suggest, the span and speed of cyberspace make it the perfect vehicle for sloppy reporting and unsubstantiated theories.
"Pretty sloppy reporting."
It can occur with lazy or sloppy reporting just as easily as the active self-censorship of legitimate criticism.
False assumptions and sloppy reporting by the Guardian.
The committees' sloppy reporting makes it hard to figure out what all those contributions paid for, but at least $250,000 went to the Governor's top aides.