ABC Highlights Victims of Obama's Budget Plan, CBS Touts New Spending as 'Investments'
The three nightly news broadcasts on Monday touted Barack Obama’s new spending as “investments,” highlighted victims of the White House’s cuts and ignored key facts about the President’s 2012 budget.
Evening News reporter Chip Reid used the preferred White House language, asserting, “But the President unveiled his budget at a technology school to highlight new investments, especially in education and innovation, including funding for 100,000 new math and science teachers, $32 billion for biomedical innovation and a doubling of funding for green energy research.”
On ABC, Jake Tapper pointed out that the White House budget adds seven trillion dollars to the debt over the next decade. But, he also found a victim of the White House’s planned cuts. Tapper identified University of Colorado Junior Derrick Dash as someone who “pays tuition with help from the Pell Grant program for low income students and he was planning on enrolling in summer classes.”
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