When you’re trying to make a point about something, like
about how free markets really work, you often feel like you’re repeating
yourself. Every day I write about the
same people doing and saying the same silly things. Sometimes it’s almost like deja vu. And then ... you discover it really is the same people saying the same things.
For instance, consider this Sunday Times Argus story titled “Gap between rich and poor widens at dramatic rate." The article covers a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston report claiming income gap in Vermont is increasing. The Argus ran a story about the same BoB report on Sept. 13 and the Argus’s sister publication the Herald ran an identical story on Sept. 7. None of the stories explained exactly why we should be worried about the income gap but all of them claimed it’s bad.
The only reason I’m bringing any of this up is because writing three stories about the same report using the same flawed arguments and misleading story titles borders on advocacy. This isn’t to say advocacy is necessarily bad. We proudly do it every day. But, when a publication presents the same biased opinion as impartial news three separate times it’s disingenuous ... at best.
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