Mainstream Media Ignores S&P Attack On Republicans

Have you seen, anywhere, in any media, or even heard reported or repeated on NPR, the following sentence? “We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.” Full Story »

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Kenneth L Salzman, PhD
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by Kenneth L Salzman, PhD - Aug. 8, 2011

This is a single sourced piece, but the single source is the original source and the story is about the reporting of that source. The opening question is valid at least in my experience... in all the reports of the S&P downgrade, NONE have referenced the sentence identified and ALL have suggested that the S&P was only concerned with the level of cuts that had been made, not with the failure to raise revenues. The sentence actually balances out the S&P report quite a bit. The question of why the media has failed to accurately describe the S&P report is a valid one, the reasons offered, I suspect, are the writer's opinion and the least valuable part of this story.

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