CBS, reputable news source: FAIL

Apparently, the CBS Interactive Business Network is willing to publish...lies? Is this because it's an Internet platform and therefore that checking sources and making sure arguments are, if not reasonable, then at least well reasoned, is superfluous?

Last week, Penelope Truck wrote an editorial claiming there is no longer a salary gap between men and women. First of all, that is not true -> Read this Newsweek article via Feministing.

And second of all, the internal logic of Penelope's argument is strangely twisted. For example: she claims, "there simply is no longer a salary gap between men and women. Yes, you read that correctly....It was just on the cover of the Economist." Let me do you the favour of clicking that  link for you:

That's right. It says "half the workforce," but it does not say anything about the salaries of those women workers.
This leads me to suspect that when Penelope writes that the Economist article, "asserted at least 15 times that a salary gap in America is gone," that she might have misinterpreted her source. At least 15, hey? Those are some mighty excellent journalistic counting skills, Miss Truck.