How the Media Supports Big Government
I have always thought that the media tends to support big government. I have never understood if that is because the media is dominated by big-government liberals, as conservatives claim, or if there is some shared self interest between media and a large government, since so much of what is newsworthy flows from the government. After all, look how dull the news gets in August when Congress lets out. Anyway, I have always been frustrated by the unhelpful media coverage of budget debates. In particular, the media seems to systematically want to call a slowing of spending growth a "cut". Patterico's Pontifications has an example.
