For some reason, Jounalists, no matter how techincal the thing they're writing about, uniformly forget the basic graph-drawing rules their math and science teac

For some reason, Jounalists, no matter how techincal the thing they're writing about, uniformly forget the basic graph-drawing rules their math and science teachers made them follow when they were 13. It might have seemed like pointless pedantry to their child selves, but then they get it wrong and their graph becomes an empty emotional gimmick instead of actually informative.