Media Matters - Budget

Media Matters - Budget http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/budget This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Budget en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America LA Times reported that McCain "has not budged" from balance budget pledge but didn't report that his chief economic policy adviser has http://mediamatters.org/items/200810230012 The Los Angeles Times reported that "[Sen. John] McCain has not budged from his insistence that he can balance the budget within four years." But in the article, the Times did not note that McCain's chief economic policy adviser backed off the commitment to balance the budget in four years and that McCain has repeatedly shifted on his time frame for balancing the budget. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810230012 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:20:56 EST Note to NPR: The only time Mississippi has ever gotten anything out of the federal government is ... always http://mediamatters.org/items/200808060007 Reporting on U.S. Senate candidates campaigning at a Mississippi county fair, NPR's Debbie Elliott uncritically aired a clip of one fairgoer claiming that the "[o]nly time we have ever gotten anything out of the federal government was when the Republicans were there." In fact, according to the Tax Foundation, from 1981 through 2005, Mississippi has consistently received more from the federal government than the state's residents pay in taxes. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808060007 Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:29:50 EST Blitzer did not ask Fiorina why other McCain economic adviser disputes her balanced-budget projections http://mediamatters.org/items/200806120005 On The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer did not challenge Carly Fiorina's assertion that Sen. John McCain "will balance his budget by the end of 2013." In fact, both McCain economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin and McCain himself have reportedly said that he would balance the budget in eight years. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806120005 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:42:15 EST Wash. Post, LA Times uncritically quoted White House assertion that it opposes war funding bill because it includes domestic spending http://mediamatters.org/items/200805230006 In articles reporting the White House's threat to veto a supplemental war funding bill, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times uncritically quoted Dana Perino saying, "This is the wrong way to consider domestic spending, and Congress should not go down this path." But neither the Times nor the Post pointed out that President Bush signed supplemental war funding bills that included domestic spending in June 2006 and December 2005. http://mediamatters.org/items/200805230006 Fri, 23 May 2008 16:43:19 EST CBS report on "mind-numbing" national debt made no mention of Republican-led Congress' years of deficit spending on Bush tax cuts, Iraq http://mediamatters.org/items/200804030008 A CBS Evening News report on the national debt, the current level of which both anchor Katie Couric and correspondent Anthony Mason described as "mind-numbing," failed to quote a single Democrat and did not point out the extent to which deficit spending by Republican-led Congresses has contributed to the debt. http://mediamatters.org/items/200804030008 Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:46:10 EST NY Times article falsely suggested authority to eavesdrop on terrorism suspects expires on Feb. 1 http://mediamatters.org/items/200801290007 A New York Times article falsely suggested that the legal authority "permitting intelligence officials to eavesdrop on the communications of terrorism suspects" would expire on February 1 unless Congress renews it. In fact, neither the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- the principal law "permitting intelligence officials to eavesdrop on the communications of terrorism suspects" -- nor the authority to monitor the communications of suspected terrorists will "expire" on February 1; rather, what are set to expire are the August 2007 revisions to FISA made through the Protect America Act. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801290007 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:03:44 EST Print media uncritically reported Bush's criticism of Congress' "last minute" appropriations http://mediamatters.org/items/200712210005 In articles on President Bush's December 20 press conference, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today uncritically reported Bush's criticism of Congress for passing all but two of the fiscal year 2008 appropriations bills as a single omnibus appropriations bill "at the last minute, nearly three months after the end of the fiscal year." But none of the articles noted that during his seven years in the White House, Bush has never signed all of Congress' appropriations bills into law before the beginning of the fiscal year, and has on two occasions signed omnibus spending bills on dates later than that on which the fiscal year 2008 bill passed. http://mediamatters.org/items/200712210005 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:32:17 EST Media continue to ignore McCain's skipped vote while highlighting his attacks on Clinton http://mediamatters.org/items/200711150005 Several media outlets have reported on the latest ad released by Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign attacking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton over her support for an earmark funding a Woodstock Festival museum, but these outlets have not noted that McCain skipped the vote on removing the earmark. http://mediamatters.org/items/200711150005 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:43:09 EST Politico attributed 2006 earmark drop to GOP Congress, ignored its failure to pass spending bills that year http://mediamatters.org/items/200711150003 A Politico article suggested that the Republican-led 109th Congress was responsible for a decrease in the number of earmarks approved in 2006 (for the 2007 fiscal year) relative to previous years. But the article did not mention that following the Democratic victories in the 2006 midterm elections, the GOP leadership declined to pass nine of 11 annual appropriations bills and that in order to fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal 2007, Democrats placed a one-time moratorium on earmarks. http://mediamatters.org/items/200711150003 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:48:54 EST Situation Room played up McCain attacks on Clinton over earmark, but didn't note his missed vote http://mediamatters.org/items/200710290006 CNN's The Situation Room has reported several times on Sen. John McCain's attacks on Sen. Hillary Clinton's support for a $1 million earmark for a museum at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock music festival. But in none of its reports did CNN note that, although McCain is listed as a co-sponsor of the amendment to remove the funding for the museum, he missed the vote on the earmark. http://mediamatters.org/items/200710290006 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:47:42 EST Ignoring deficit spending, Wash. Post's soon-to-be economics reporter asserted Bush "is pay[ing] for the war" with other cuts in budget http://mediamatters.org/items/200710260002 The Washington Post's Michael Fletcher asserted that President Bush "is generally against tax increases as he believes they stifle economic growth. So his idea is to pay for the war by cutting back elsewhere in the budget." In fact, inflation-adjusted non-defense discretionary outlays have risen each year since Bush took office; Bush has actually paid for the war by deficit spending. http://mediamatters.org/items/200710260002 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:19:42 EST CNN's Malveaux failed to challenge DeLay's assertion that Bush "held the line on spending" http://mediamatters.org/items/200708170002 During a CNN interview about the effect of Karl Rove's resignation, Suzanne Malveaux did not challenge Tom DeLay's claim that "[t]he president held the line on spending," despite the fact that, even though President Bush assumed office with a $125.3 billion surplus, the Bush administration has run a deficit in every fiscal year of the Bush presidency. Additionally, Malveaux did not note Rove's reported assertion that his "biggest error" of the 2006 election cycle was "not working soon enough to replace Republicans tainted by scandal," or point out that DeLay himself remained in the House for several months following his indictment on money laundering and conspiracy charges. http://mediamatters.org/items/200708170002 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:07:07 EST Schneider asked how Dems would pay for health care, but not Republicans http://mediamatters.org/items/200707160002 http://mediamatters.org/items/200707160002 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:53:33 EST CNN's King failed to challenge claim that Bush "has stood up for" "wisely spending the taxpayers' dollar" http://mediamatters.org/items/200706200007 http://mediamatters.org/items/200706200007 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:13:19 EST Citing Bush attack on Dems, MSNBC's Kelly O'Donnell did not mention pork in prior GOP war funding bills http://mediamatters.org/items/200704190004 http://mediamatters.org/items/200704190004 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:59:21 EST