Krugman: Unethical Commentary, Newsweek Edition (Niall Ferguson's Cover Story)

[flpoljunkie]

August 19, 2012
Unethical Commentary, Newsweek Edition

There are multiple errors and misrepresentations in Niall Ferguson’s cover story in Newsweek — I guess they don’t do fact-checking — but this is the one that jumped out at me. Ferguson says:

The president pledged that health-care reform would not add a cent to the deficit. But the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation now estimate that the insurance-coverage provisions of the ACA will have a net cost of close to $1.2 trillion over the 2012–22 period.

Readers are no doubt meant to interpret this as saying that CBO found that the Act will increase the deficit. But anyone who actually read, or even skimmed, the CBO report (pdf) knows that it found that the ACA would reduce, not increase, the deficit — because the insurance subsidies were fully paid for.

Now, people on the right like to argue that the CBO was wrong. But that’s not the argument Ferguson is making — he is deliberately misleading readers, conveying the impression that the CBO had actually rejected Obama’s claim that health reform is deficit-neutral, when in fact the opposite is true.

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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/unethical-commentary-newsweek-edition/

[Dkc05]

1. ban newsweek. fairnesss doctorrine

Shut it down. Calling AG holder. This publication published lies

[still_one]

2. don't ban it, just don't subscribe. let them go broke /nt

[mopinko]

4. um,

you know there is no fairness doctrine, right. dumped by st ronnie of raygun long ago. and only applied to teevee, anyway.

[Hydra]

5. Holder is too busy chasing MJ users and growers

To be bothered with Geneva level crimes and world wide bank fraud, let alone RW propaganda being sold as "facts."

[Blue_Roses]

3. Comments on Krugman's blog have some interesting responses...

like this one:

" Perry -Texas

Aug. 20, 2012 at 1:40 a.m. RECOMMENDED 3

In my 60 plus years of watching political wrestling this is the worst I've seen major media lean toward one political party/canidate. All major news networks are obviously favoring Romney & Ryan in the way they present the "news". There is nothing fair or balanced about it. Many times they only showcase the Romney campaign andgive no rebuttal message from President Obama."

Notice the name and state. Weird.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/unethical-commentary-newsweek-edition/