October 16, 2010
Dan Balz gave Washington Post readers classic “he said, she said” reporting in his coverage in the debate in Nevada’s Senate race. Balz reported that Sharon Angle, the Republican challenger, claimed that Social Security is facing a serious crisis. He then noted that: “Reid suggested that, with tiny fixes, the system would be good for the next four decades or beyond.”
Actually, what Reid “suggested” is exactly what the projections from the Congressional Budget Office show as well as the projections from the Social Security trustees. The vast majority of Post readers don’t have the time to investigate the truth of Reid’s statement, Dan Balz does. He should have told readers that Senator Reid was right and Ms. Angle was wrong according to the standard projections used to evaluate this program.
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