Labeling Bias from Balt Sun: ‘Ehrlich Wants Tax Cuts; O’Malley Wants More Investment’
Liberal Democrats love to couch increased government spending as “investments.” It's smart political marketing, but it's a less-than-truthful spin on what government spending is or does. When's the last time you got a dividend check from your state government giving you your share of the “profit” from a road or bridge project? But it's when journalists buy into that spin that we at NewsBusters really have a problem. Take the Baltimore Sun, which today told readers that while rivals Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) and former Governor Bob Ehrlich (R) are focused on the economy in their closing campaign pitches, “Ehrlich wants tax cuts; O'Malley wants more investment.” Noted Annie Linskey in a story filed on BaltimoreSun.com last evening (emphasis mine): read more
Go here to see the original:
Labeling Bias from Balt Sun: ‘Ehrlich Wants Tax Cuts; O’Malley Wants More Investment’
Posted by
on October 29, 2010. Filed under