However, let me pick a bone with CNN's editors. If you write a paragraph like this:
Adjusted for inflation, the current gas price is not a record. That occurred in March 1981, when the Iranian revolution set off skyrocketing prices on the spot-oil market.Would it kill you to inform your readers that the inflation-adjusted highs would be $3 a gallon? Here, let's see if I can do it.
Adjusted for inflation, the current gas price is not a record. That occurred in March 1981, when the Iranian revolution set off skyrocketing prices on the spot-oil market and led to a gasoline price of $3 a gallon in 2005 dollars.Jeez, you think they could've spared thirteen words. How much does an intern at CNN get paid? Can they hire me?
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