Political grab bag

The final Spinsanity column for the Philadelphia Inquirer is out, judging the press’ performance at keeping the candidates honest this election season (short version: Not very good. And run those fact-checking pieces on the front page, not A27!).

Meanwhile, over on Campaign Desk, I have a post about the Associated Press already messing up the numbers on Social Security privatization, missing the mark by a couple of trillion dollars or so (as a colleague once put it, these sorts of stories are “BBI: Boring But Important").

And if you haven’t had your fill of post-election punditry yet, Campaign Desk is doing a big series on the failings of the press during the 2004 campaign.


Comments

Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.