"Cheap plow" = "cheap shot, low blow"?
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 8 21:29:38 UTC 2008
>From the NYT Online:
"It seems a _cheap plow_ of the NY Times to 'generate points' in a
story by including only some of the facts."
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/is-apple-iphone-ready-for-business-sort-of-says-gartner/?nl=tech&emc=tech
The comment was made by a reader who signed himself as being from
"NC." Unfortunately, he could be from NC only to the extent that I'm
from MA.
Not in DARE.
-Wilson
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