[okie01]

I don't believe anything any of them say unless they can prove it.

Part of it is bias and their overweening political agenda.

But good ol' country ignorance also plays a large role, too. The nationwide decline in educational quality seems to be most visible within the media.

Evidently, a journalism degree is cut from the same cloth as an education degree. I.e., you're taught "how to teach", but without reference to any other body of knowledge. In a journalist's case, you're taught "how to report", but without reference to any other body of knowledge (either vertical, as in "history", or horizontal, as in "critical thinking").

The Washington Post and its entire editorial staff should be embarrassed by this little affair.

[TeaDumper]

Right on!!. I turned from conspiracy theories to believing that sheer ignorance is a better explanation for the way they write their "news" stories. Most of these journalists are too young to remember when Pres. Johnson (Dem) and the Senate (Dem) and the House (Dem) thought of a great new idea of going to a "unified" budget. Although Social Security was doomed to fail from the start, the unified budget was a major turning point in the Soc Security road. The unified budget turned the "trust fund" into a very public sham. At the same time Democrat politicians began to make more and more of an issue of "keeping the trust fund" safe.

Just ask the Democrat party and leaders if they would be willing to apply the same laws on pensions (ERISA, etc.) and Securities laws on Social Security. Either you will send them off doing double speak, or they will flat out lie about the situation.

Thanks

[cookcounty]

"Evidently, a journalism degree is cut from the same cloth as an education degree. I.e., you're taught "how to teach", but without reference to any other body of knowledge. In a journalist's case, you're taught "how to report", but without reference to any other body of knowledge (either vertical, as in "history", or horizontal, as in "critical thinking"). "

If I owned a newspaper, the first thing I'd do is make sure that no "journalism majors" got hired.