July 24, 2010
Sometimes the Post just leaves readers speechless. It has a front page article with the headline: “GOP finds grist for campaigns in projections of record deficits [this headline only appears in the print edition].”
The article goes on to explain how Republicans are yelling about the new record deficits.
There are two striking features to this article. First, Republicans have criticized President Obama for everything under the sun, including a speech encouraging children to work hard in school. That the Republicans are critical of the latest budget projections is not news and certainly not front page news. Although it might merit a front page story if they did not criticize the projections.
The other striking feature of this story is that the front page only presented the Republican criticisms. Only those who read to the jump page saw that Democrats response that the deficits were the result of the economic collapse in 2008. Even this point is largely left as a matter of “he said, she said,” rather than being reported as the fact that it is.
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