Washington Post Gets Carried Away on Revised Third Quarter GDP Report

The Commerce Department released its second revision to the third quarter GDP numbers on Friday. It showed the economy growing 4.1 percent, which was better than the earlier reports and more than most analysts had expected. However, the Post got more than a bit carried away on this one, telling readers in the second sentence of its article on the report:

"The Commerce Department reported that the nation’s gross domestic product grew at a 4.1 percent annual rate during the third quarter — the...