This is an incredibly hard list to crack, and I don't think the author took their task seriously. I think, instead, they went with things that might be interest

This is an incredibly hard list to crack, and I don't think the author took their task seriously. I think, instead, they went with things that might be interesting to get angry about. Misphrasing or being rude during an interview is bad, for instance, but how did it leap above all the lies produced by laziness? For example: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=16641 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=16641 It's not sexy -- which is precisely why journalists simply lie to you about it. You don't care, they don't care, no one really cares except experts and the PR company that gives them the story. And it happens in almost every field of expertise (I notice it a lot more in sciences, but that probably only reflects my relative expertise in that cluster of ideas).