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 George W. Bush's Golf Outings Toward the end of a Times news article by Michael D. Shear about whether President Obama and his family should keep golfing and going on vacations amid the sequester comes this: "And like Mr. Obama, the second President Bush was criticized for his frequent golf outings, which sometimes made him seem disconnected from the grim task of leading a nation in war." This is misleading to the point of inaccuracy. George W. Bush stopped golfing as president in August 2003, as the Washington Post reported. The sentence in the Times, with its reference to "frequent golf outings" by a wartime President Bush, omits that highly relevant piece of information. Aggressive Republicans A front-page article in today's Times appears under the headline, "G.O.P. Divided On Proper Role For U.S. Abroad." "Republicans divided" is one of the Times' favorite themes, and, though I haven't made a formal study of it, it seems a story that gets written up more often than the story of the no-less-divided Democrats. But the main point here isn't so much the disparate treatment of Democrats and Republicans, but the language that the Times uses to describe the divide. The article begins, "For more than three decades, the Republican Party brand has been deeply tied to a worldview in which the aggressive use of American power abroad is both a policy imperative and a political advantage." Tax Changes "To Pay For Infrastructure Repairs, Obama Seeks Tax Changes" is the headline over a Times news article. The euphemistic language of the headline echoes that of the article itself, which reports:
Tax Changes "To Pay For Infrastructure Repairs, Obama Seeks Tax Changes" is the headline over a Times news article. The euphemistic language of the headline echoes that of the article itself, which reports:
Aggressive Republicans A front-page article in today's Times appears under the headline, "G.O.P. Divided On Proper Role For U.S. Abroad." "Republicans divided" is one of the Times' favorite themes, and, though I haven't made a formal study of it, it seems a story that gets written up more often than the story of the no-less-divided Democrats. But the main point here isn't so much the disparate treatment of Democrats and Republicans, but the language that the Times uses to describe the divide. The article begins, "For more than three decades, the Republican Party brand has been deeply tied to a worldview in which the aggressive use of American power abroad is both a policy imperative and a political advantage." George W. Bush's Golf Outings Toward the end of a Times news article by Michael D. Shear about whether President Obama and his family should keep golfing and going on vacations amid the sequester comes this: "And like Mr. Obama, the second President Bush was criticized for his frequent golf outings, which sometimes made him seem disconnected from the grim task of leading a nation in war." This is misleading to the point of inaccuracy. George W. Bush stopped golfing as president in August 2003, as the Washington Post reported. The sentence in the Times, with its reference to "frequent golf outings" by a wartime President Bush, omits that highly relevant piece of information.
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