A front-page New York Times news article about Senator Rand Paul and his presidential campaign concludes with this passage:
keeping up with the South by Southwest set is not for everyone. On Saturday night, after he left a concert with the D.J. Mark Ronson, Mr. Paul headed straight for bed. He was asleep by 10:30.
For at least this literal-minded reader, this was an ending that raised more questions than it answered. For starters, how did the Times know when Dr. Paul fell asleep? It must have been hard for the senator to doze off with the Times reporter there staring at him watching for what time his eyes shut and listening to see if he started snoring. If that's not what happened, the Times is relying on someone's say-so without telling us who that person is, or how that person knows.