Comments for Another Post Editorial on the Budget Runs in the News Section at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.cepr.net Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:30:48 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/another-post-editorial-on-the-budget-runs-in-the-news-section#comment-19067 Don't we have reason to suspect that anticipation of the "fiscal cliff" is already having an impact on economic activity? Shouldn't business managers, unable to know the extent to which the "cliff" will reduce orders for their output, be cutting back on inventory and hiring now? Haven't there been anecdotal reports to that effect? Yes, the impact of the "cliff" should be gradual, but not necessarily beginning on January 2. - kharris Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:24:39 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/another-post-editorial-on-the-budget-runs-in-the-news-section#comment-19064 Journalists are supposed to supply the facts to the public so that individuals can make more informed decisions. If the WaPo prints "Senior Republicans say...." I expect to see the names of those individuals printed or the label "Senior Republicans" shouldn't be in the story. I want facts, not the opinions of some thirty-something reporter who hasn't even put a kid through college yet. - Dave Thomas Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:18:10 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/another-post-editorial-on-the-budget-runs-in-the-news-section#comment-19056 The problem is not that the media is partisan, the problem is that too much of the media has been reduced to meaninglessness in the form of [i]"party R said/party D said."[/i] Media is [u]supposed[/u] to be partisan, and it is healthy for it to be so when there is enough of it for the public to hear more than one voice. The problem is not that it is partisan, it's that each market has been reduced to a single voice. In days past each city, even small ones, had two newspapers. One was morning and the other evening. Without fail one leaned Democratic and the other Republican. People subscribed to and read both, and were thus exposed to both points of view. How many cities today have two papers of significance? Instead we have the single paper, the single media, which is charged with being [i]"non partisan"[/i] and therefore babbles trivial crap like the [i]"man of the week"[/i] and [i]"on the road"[/i] segments, and reports the news by quoting soundbites from representives of both sides. - Bill Heffner Sun, 23 Sep 2012 05:46:44 +0100