Patterico’s LA Times 2005 Year in Review

Patterico delivers a year-end righteous smackdown of the LATimes by reviewing and dissecting key stories/topics they reported on last year.

Don’t miss it. It’s lengthy but well-worth the read.

One Response to "Patterico’s LA Times 2005 Year in Review"

Baklava says:

January 1, 2006 at 11:37 pm

That’s quite the smackdown. I love Patterico !

Patterico wrote, “For the second year in a row, the L.A. Times portrayed an increase of over a billion dollars in education spending as a decrease in spending. Last year, the paper reported that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was expected to propose “cuts” of at least $2 billion in education spending, when the governor was actually proposing an increase of between $1.5 and $2 billion in education spending. One year later to the day, the paper pulled the exact same trick, calling a $2.9 billion increase (7%) in the education budget a $2.2 billion cut. Days later, a second story warned of a “$2-billion cut” in Schwarzenegger’s proposed education budget. A third story said the proposed budget “scales back payments to schools.” Not surprisingly, readers were fooled.”

The Sacramento Bee pulls the same stunts. So many people are misinformed and actually think Arnold cut education spending.

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