New York Times Employs Same Loaded ‘Big Oil’ Terminology as Liberal Democrats
Senate Democrats failed to push through a proposal that would have deprived the five leading oil companies of tax breaks, New York Times reporter Carl Hulse reported Wednesday. Hulse’s headline writer, meanwhile, used the same ideologically loaded “big oil” terminology a liberal Democrat used in Hulse’s story: ” Senate Refuses to End Tax Breaks for Big Oil .” The phrase “Big Oil,” redolent of sophomoric liberals excoriating Republican greed, recurred deep into the story, from the mouth of a liberal Democratic senator. Also on Tuesday, Senate Democrats wrote to the Federal Trade Commission seeking an inquiry into whether domestic oil refiners had reduced production to drive down the gasoline supply and drive up prices. “This is just another piece of the puzzle that we need to get at as we try to take away taxpayer subsidies to Big Oil and hold Big Oil accountable for whatever may be going on in the supply chain that is hurting the families that I work for , ” said Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri. The Times also used “Big Oil” in a print headline over a May 9 story by Hulse on the same topic: ” Democrats’ Plan Would Offset Deficit by Ending Big Oil’s Tax Breaks .” Ironically, Hulse himself implicitly criticized the G.O.P. in an April
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