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Unbalanced Budget Reporting |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / MEDIA IN REVIEW |
| Author: Stephen Moore And Tim Graham |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 2,141 Words, 13,711 Characters |
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Now, six presidents and $5 trillion of debt later, the budget has finally come full circle back into balance.
This is arguably the most momentous accomplishment in Washington in a decade. Regrettably, it's also a story that has been too often underreported by national media that frequently appear more interested in the who's-up, who's-down horse race of budget politics than the solid facts of budget economics.
In their stories, reporters, editors, and producers also rarely provide a fair balance of views from economists and other experts on federal budget matters, according to many media critics. Reading the average major-media story on the budget surplus or watching a report on the network news usually gives Americans the impression that there is virtual unanimity among economic exp...
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...udget that contains a gold mine of basic data needed for almost any fiscal news story. In fact, every budget statistic in this article comes from that official document.
If reporters want to put statistical claims in their reporting that come from studying the raw data instead of cribbing from politicians' press releases--which it often appears they do--they ought to look it up themselves.
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