There is a tab that has been open in my browser for several days because there is a line in a news story that I didn’t want to throw away. In a Reuters story from Friday about the states asking for potentially $1 trillion in federal assistance, Governor Doyle of Wisconsin is paraphrased as suggesting that the aid would allow states to remain afloat until about 2010. The issue that I have with that (that to balance their own budgets states borrow from the federal government constantly and then turn around and shake their fingers at Washington for having a big debt) is not what was most offensive. What was most offensive was the end of the sentence following what Governor Doyle said, which said “[2010], when the national economy is expected to begin a recovery.”
This projection was casually slipped into the sentence, making it unclear whether it was intended to be part of the paraphrase of Doyle’s statement or the author’s explanation of it. Who made this determination? The same so-called experts who didn’t see the downturn coming? Or Doyle, just throwing out some optimism? Either way I can’t help but see it as irresponsible reporting.
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