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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Geezer-Bashing: Media Attacks on the Elderly By John L. Hess Budget out of control, banks going bust, states and cities going broke, children going hungry -- who's to blame? For major media, no problem. It's elderly Americans . In their drive to punish gray hair, big media give no quarter. There is notrial, no defense. "Elderly, Affluent -- and Selfish", snarls a typical op-ed in the New York Times (10/10/89). "The 800-Pound Gorilla Vs. the Hungry Baby", growls a Washington Post column (10/22/90), referring to the invisible geezer lobbyas an ape. Time magazine (11/26/90) says the country could work its way out of the hole it's in "by spending less on the elderly and more on preschoolers," but alas, "the elderly vote and preschoolers don't."Columnist Lars-Erik Nelson of the New York Daily News (10/22/90) proposes a cure for that: a Constitutional amendment denying the vote to everybody who gets a government check, like Social Security. Nelson happens to be one of the more liberal members of the Washington press corps. What could cause him to utter such a cruel jest? It is that heand others like him have been taken in by a vicious and preposterous propaganda campaign -- and have never heard the truth of it. For instance, a New York Times report (10/19/90) was headlined, "Political Might of Elderly Is Felt Again in Senate: Dole Complains That Medicare Has Become Untouchable". The news? The Senate had agreed to cut Medicare spending by only $43 billion, rather than the $60 billion slash that was in the original budget deal. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1511 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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