http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/1757/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-alerts/media-dust-1995-shutdown-playbook-cliches-cover-current-budget-fight <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/geoffrey-dickens">Geoffrey Dickens</a> </div> </div> </div> <p><img src="/sites/default/files/uploads/shutdownPHOTO.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 3px;" width="300" />As a potential government shutdown looms the liberal media are filling their programs with stories about dire consequences of deep cuts that will lead to troops not getting paid, closed national parks, and late tax refunds. However, a review of <a href="http://www.mrc.org/mediawatch/1995/watch19951201.asp#6">MRC's coverage </a>of the 1995 budget fight reveals the media are simply rerunning their tired old arguments from the last shutdown.<br /></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-alerts/media-dust-1995-shutdown-playbook-cliches-cover-current-budget-fight" target="_blank">read more</a></p> BiasAlerts News Analysis Division BiasAlert ContessaBrewer JackSmith JakeTapper JohnPalmer JonathanKarl KathleenKennedy liberalmediabias LindaDouglass MattLauer NancyCordes ScottPelley Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:06:00 +0000 37547 at http://archive2.mrc.org