This doesn't address my criticism in the slightest, and I'm extremely well aware of all of this. My comment did not concern what statistics the press should rep

This doesn't address my criticism in the slightest, and I'm extremely well aware of all of this. My comment did not concern what statistics the press should report in presenting financial data, only the lie of the original headline which suggested that the press incorrectly thought homes sales went up when they actually went down. For the scope that the press intended, the stats they reported were accurate. To reiterate (and not to clarify, because my original comment is clear): When the press reports rises and declines, if they do not explicitly say year over year, they are talking month over month. Indeed, this VERY article contains an example of it, with the press reporting that home sales were up 4.7%. The original title of this submission, before it was edited to include "year over year", specifically played upon this implied and incorrect comparison to provoke a response. Indeed, I'm not the only one who found the headline misleading; my comment had been voted up to at least 5 shortly after I posted, and before the headline was altered and your tangential comment sent people on a wild goose chase.