Comment by martin-t

Lying by omission is still lying.

What I've noticed is that for a lot of people, if you do something wrong through a sufficient number of steps, they feel like the severity is lower.

The opposite is in fact true - causing harm through multiple steps shows intent and the severity is in fact higher.

If a journalist doesn't understand statistical significance, he is either incompetent or malicious. Either way he needs to be removed from his little position of power and if the incompetence is sufficient or the malice proven, he needs to be punished.