Re: Washington Post
Posted by:
Dog Walker1
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Date: June 21, 2016 12:32AM
The WaPo, like most of drive-by media are attack dogs biting any Republican, especially a conservative. They are lapdogs to the Democrats, especially Dem Presidents and Dem liberals.
The bias goes way beyond simple partisan politics to encompass notions of what good government should do. More generally, WaPo and mainstream media, also emphasize liberal ideas, theories, beliefs, or memes (even if false or relatively unimportant) and de-emphasize and debunk conservative ideas, theories, beliefs, or memes (despite being true and important).
Decades ago (30 plus years back) the WaPo Metro page had a headline "Va Stingiest in Area Benefits." The article pointed out that Virginia welfare benefits per person in the program were lower than Maryland welfare and much lower than DC welfare.
Nowhere in the article did it mention that the cost of living was lower in Va than Md and much lower in Va than DC. That's statewide averages. Obviously the suburbs of DC in Va and Md are high cost of living areas. Yet, and this was more true 30 plus years back than now, many Marylanders and Virginians lived in low cost of living areas. Think rural Eastern shore, Western part of Md and parts of Va near NC, TN, KY, and WV borders.
Obviously, in the minds of the WaPo reporter and editor higher welfare benefits were good and this bias was part of what purported to be a news story. Instead, the article was a thinly disguised editorial, pretending to be a news story.
The headline, with an opposite bias, would have been: "Va thriftiest in Area Benefits" and the story could be that Va was not fleecing its taxpayers to give great benefits to layabouts.
A neutral headline would have been "Area Benefits Vary" with the neutral story comparing benefits, but also factoring in different average costs of living and the negative impact on the budgets if benefits are too high, forcing state/DC taxpayers to pay higher taxes.
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