Has the Post Ever Had a Headline About the "Whoppingly" Inefficient Health Care System?

American Prospect by Dean Baker | Feb. 16, 2009 (News Analysis)

Post Exaggerates the Size of the Stimulus Bill

Okay folks, this is 2-year stimulus, not a 1-year package. (Actually, as the Republicans were fond of pointing out, much of the spending will not take place until 2011, year 3 of the package.) That means that there is a word to describe the Post's claim that the package is more than 5 percent of GDP: "wrong."

Of course, if the Post was interested in accurate reporting it might also have noticed that the package saved the government $140 billion by ... Full Story »

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by Michele Kelly - May. 24, 2009

This is quality journalism in that it points out deficiencies of supposedly quality journalism. This is a blog post; it is not a news story. Furthermore, it's a liberal blog post. Since I am a liberal, that's ok with me.

I believe the decline of mainstream media newspapers has as much to do with their failure to report the news accurately and free of bias as it does with the rise of Internet news. We should never forget the NYT misled the American public on the weapons of mass destruction. We have to look to alternative sources and independent media if we want to know what's going on.