Tag Archives: Dean Baker

Climate Change Secondary to 'Free' Trade at NYT

Posted on 06/29/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Tying the urgent present-day topic of economic reporting in with the most pressing global emergency of climate change, Dean Baker has posted at his Beat the Press blog (6/29/09) on "What Does 'Free Trade' Have to Do With Taxing Greenhouse … Continue reading →

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'Ardently Protectionist' WaPo Ignores Entire World

Posted on 06/24/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Economist Dean Baker (Beat the Press, 6/20/09) has requested you try to "imagine a front-page Washington Post article that talked about how the United States had a shortage of small cars." He reasonable assumes such a piece would address "the … Continue reading →

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WaPo's Front-Page News Deficit

Posted on 06/17/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Dean Baker (Beat the Press, 6/14/09) has caught "Fox on 15th (a.k.a. 'The Washington Post')" once again "departing from normal news practice" with "another editorial complaining about President Obama's deficits on the front page." The piece's subhead–"Concern Mounts in White … Continue reading →

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Wall St. Cheerleaders 'Abandon Economic Reporting'

Posted on 06/03/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Looking at last week's "whole series of bad reports on the state of the economy," Dean Baker of Beat the Press and the Center for Economic and Policy Research tells readers of London's Guardian (6/1/09) if they think "these reports … Continue reading →

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D.C.'s 'Fox on 15th Street' Still Hates Unions

Posted on 06/01/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Spotting a May 31 Washington Post column "that blamed the United Auto Workers for the bankruptcy of Chrysler and GM," Dean Baker declares (Beat the Press, 5/31/09) that the D.C. daily "showed yet again why it is known as "Fox … Continue reading →

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NYT's Bad Stats Push for European Layoffs

Posted on 05/28/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Blogging (Beat the Press, 5/26/09) about how the "New York Times Cooks the Books on Europe's Auto Industry," economist Dean Baker catches the paper "touting the layoffs in the U.S. auto industry as a virtue"–since "it notes that auto industry … Continue reading →

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Social Security Scaremongering, Washington Post Style

Posted on 05/13/2009 by Peter Hart

Yesterday the Social Security and Medicare trustees' reports were released. This annual ritual oftengives reporters a chance to exaggerate the long-term problems of the Social Security system. This year, the news wasmoreor lesswhat folks were expecting: By the trustees' forecasting, … Continue reading →

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Employee Free Choice for 'Very Slow Reporters'

Posted on 05/09/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Asking "Can We Get Reporters to Stop Saying That EFCA Takes Away the Secret Ballot?" Dean Baker bluntly states (Beat the Press, 5/7/09) that "it's not true." Even though this is one of the "most often repeated lines of the … Continue reading →

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NYT Economics Reporting Still Failing Along

Posted on 05/04/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

While asserting the extremely simple journalistic principle that "Past Records Should Matter In Assessing Views on the Economy," Dean Baker (Beat the Press, 5/2/09) is willing to admit that everyone makes mistakes, but the odds are that anyone who couldn't … Continue reading →

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Empty Economic Rhetoric at the NYT

Posted on 04/22/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Asking a simple question about a large issue–"How Do Trillion Dollar Bank Bailouts Fit With 'Free-Market Fundamentalism?'"–Dean Baker (Beat the Press, 4/19/09) tells his readers that "the obvious answer is, they don't"–since, "if you are a free-market fundamentalist, then you … Continue reading →

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Options to the Latest 'Absolutely Essential' Bank Plan

Posted on 03/30/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Looking back over how corporate "media abandoned any pretense of objectivity in pushing the original TARP back in the fall," when "they eagerly pushed the story that the economy would collapse if the TARP did not pass," Dean Baker (Beat … Continue reading →

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Media's Deficit Hawk Fixation Yields. . . Record Deficits

Posted on 03/27/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Listening to "budget hawk" media figures who urge President Obama "to commit to spending cuts and/or tax increases" because they are "upset that the deficits projected for 2013 or 2019 are too large," Dean Baker (TPM Café, 3/25/09) finds it … Continue reading →

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NYT: Not Spending Is Not Saving

Posted on 02/23/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Economics blogger Dean Baker asserts that "about the only thing that readers can learn from an article on Japan in the business section today" is that "The New York Times Doesn't Like Japan" (Beat the Press, 2/22/09). Among the piece's … Continue reading →

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Media: What's This Spending Doing in My Stimulus?

Posted on 02/04/2009 by Jim Naureckas

There's a trope that you often see in corporate media discussions of the stimulus plan: Yeah, but do you really want to spend money on that? It may have started with the misrepresented contraceptive plan–which seemed to be grounded in … Continue reading →

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Which Kind of Trader Needs Quotation Marks?

Posted on 11/14/2008 by Peter Hart

Today's Washington Post (11/14/08) explains that Obama's economic advisers "span the policy spectrum:" They include free traders and "fair traders," deficit hawks, Wall Street executives, corporate moguls and labor advocates. Why the different typographical treatment of free trade and fair … Continue reading →

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