My guess is that journalists who can't write go into teevee journalism. Take a look at this report from the CBS affiliate WCAX in Burlington, Vermont: we have a number used in place of a word...
The community is 1 of the most conservative in the Amish Christian sect.
...and no notion of how crapping in a bucket is a central tenet of Amish religious belief:
And the practice has been to collect the waste in a bucket and dump it onto a field. But the county says they have to install a holding tank and hire a certified sewage hauler.
Swartzentruber is refusing to pay the fine of more than $500. During a break while tilling a field, he told The Associated Press he'd rather go to jail than violate his religious principles.
I suppose it has something to do with their religious notion of simplicity in all things, but the reporter shouldn't make me rely on suppositions.
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