Just the Numbers?

February 06, 2004

After President Bush released his budget plan this week, the online community went into overdrive, picking apart not just the budget, but the coverage of the budget. Bloggers complained that though the numbers didn't add up, critical analysis was noticeably absent from the front pages of many newspapers. Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman agrees, and tells Brooke why.


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