In a May 22, 2006 "Top Story" on the web site of KUTV (CBS Channel 2 in Salt Lake City, Utah), it was reported that the president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, was visiting Utah.
As Utah is the home of the Mormon church, news outlets there often look for an angle in stories to tie things in to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (aka, "The Mormons"). Here's how KUTV did it:
"The Mormon church also has a strong presence in Mexico, where in 2004 membership exceeded 1.6 million -- or one in every 105 Mexican nationals."
Pretty impressive, isn't it? Maybe too impressive? Let's do the math.
If 1.6 million people represents just one of 105 of the population, then when you multiply 1.6 million by 105, you get 168 million people. The CIA's July 2006 estimate of the population of Mexico is 107.5 million people.
Apparently, then, between 2004 and this summer, 60.5 million Mexicans have emigrated to Utah.
2006-08-08 20:34:35 · 4 answers · asked by Woody 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Has everybody forgotten that this is the JOKE & RIDDLE section?
If you can remember that little fact, you won't be getting your panties all wound up so tight in your in your crack.
SHEESH!! What side of the bed did you get up on today?
Maybe the full moon today has something to do with, the crappy attitude.
2006-08-09 12:12:27 · update #1
60.5 million to Utah, are you kidding? Utah barely has a population of 2 million in the whole state! We would have noticed that amount of people in our state! Sometimes news don't get thier facts straight. Do you do everything right?
2006-08-09 07:44:43 · answer #1 · answered by lovin' life 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow, you have just opened my eyes to the fact that the news media gets things wrong every once in awhile Can you show me where the church has those numbers recorded. Seems to me it is just the news station reporting inacurately (that's nothing new) and if the LDS church is the one with the wrong numbers....then why single them out (it is probable they have inaccurate membership numbers, they're working on trying to fix those) but we won't go into how. What is your point here anyway? And The church isn't the only one with inacurate numbers.
2006-08-09 06:45:18 · answer #2 · answered by justinodhans982000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So what?
2006-08-08 20:41:03 · answer #3 · answered by police 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So???????????????
2006-08-08 22:46:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋