Not only that, while Stern was seeking money for his own punk-preppy clothing line, many Washington reporters are decidedly wardrobe-challenged. · Acting as a conduit for bad information from high-level sources, such as in Judith Miller's stories on Iraq's WMDs, which, as it turned out, were nonexistent.
Terrell then blamed the informant for providing bad information.
Deanne Loonin, director of the National Consumer Law Center's student loan borrower assistance project, said that even when borrowers know about Income-Based Repayment and similar programs, servicers continue to give them bad information, making it difficult for struggling borrowers to pick the best payment plan for them.
Sometimes trainers offered patently bad information — failing to clarify, for example, that even though teachers were to elicit wrong answers from students, they still needed, eventually, to get to correct ones.
He blamed the PR firm for the bad information.
The fact is that the administration at all levels, and to some extent us, used bad information to bolster its case for war.
The major television news organizations have decided to retain their associations with Voter News Service, the polling consortium that they blamed for supplying bad information on election night last year.
In her correction, Pirro laid responsibility for the bad information on Emerson, and on her failure to correct him: "Last week on this program," said Pirro, "a guest made a serious factual error that we wrongly let stand unchallenged and uncorrected.
It placed some of the blame for the bad information on "improper conduct" by its former chief financial officer, Mr. Schiller, who also served as interim chief executive this year when Mr. Pearson was on medical leave.
More recently, economists and sociologists have extended Gresham's Law to information: Bad information drives out good, and for similar reasons.
