Lew Rockwell’s column today explores the tremendous difference in media coverage of Reagan’s first term with its coverage of Obama’s first six months. Reagan was savaged for wanting to cut government spending, regulation and taxes — an approach that, as the media told it, would devastate the country. We somehow survived. In fact, the economy perked up strongly in 1983, even though federal spending was merely slowed.
Today, nearly all the reporting on the economy from the MSM is fawning, apologetic blather, even as unemployment continues to shoot up and red ink flows out of Washington like Hoover Dam had just burst.
Summing up, in 1982 editors told reporters, “Find anything that makes Reagan look bad.” Today, the order is “Find anything to make Obama look good.”