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An adopt-a-journalist site comes the realization that USA Today is doing a better job of campaign coverage than the major dailies.
"Wow, here's a journalist reporting on what a candidate is saying, with solid background, relevant accurate facts, no horse race stuff, no media spin.
Expanded for USA today where it's even better.
"In a book about Paul O'Neill's tenure as Treasury secretary, Greenspan was quoted as saying Bush's 2001 tax cuts -- if implemented without "triggers" to cancel them if budget deficits swelled -- would be "irresponsible fiscal policy."
However, a Fed spokesman last week said Greenspan has denied saying this. He has, however, raised the issue of triggers in the past.
"In recognition of the uncertainties in the economic and budget outlook, it is important that any long-term tax plan or spending initiative ... be phased in," Greenspan said in testimony Feb. 13, 2001, a time when government forecasts envisioned mounting budget surpluses for years to come.
"Conceivably, it could include provisions that in some way would limit surplus-reducing actions if specified targets for the budget surplus and federal debt were not satisfied," he said."
Note how Wilson does what most American journalists don't do - takes Greenspan's "denial" and actually goes back to Greenspan's record to show his public statements on the issue.
Props, kudos, accolades. Find me a thesaurus so I can keep complimenting one reporter for one day for doing a notable job of outstanding journalism.
It's amazing that we live in a world where USA Today outshines the NY Times and the Washington Post for the accuracy and the depth of their coverage."