WaPo’s Misleading Social Security Piece

Article doesn’t come close to telling the whole story

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM

By now we’re aware that The Washington Post supports serious changes in Social Security. In fact, the paper editorialized Friday... More

A Big Omission at NBC

Whatever happened to Social Security?

By Trudy Lieberman   Mar 3, 2011 at 12:48 PM

NBC Nightly News took on retirement income the other day and found most Americans’s savings will come up short. The... More

A Curious Omission at the Times

Three Social Security proposals, or two?

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 24, 2010 at 09:44 AM

It was puzzling to see Jackie Calmes’s brief story in The New York Times last week with its provocative headline:... More

A Good Payroll Tax Piece from the Post

Finally, some balance from WaPo

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 4, 2012 at 12:46 PM

At last The Washington Post, which shaped much of the media coverage of the defcit and entitlement discussion last year,... More

A Good Social Security Story—At Last

Reuters shows it can be done

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 11, 2011 at 12:35 PM

Last week Reuters sent out a fine piece by Emily Kaiser that helped readers understand what the Social Security fight... More

A Laurel to the AP

For its eye-opening story on Social Security

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM

The AP’s recent story on proposed changes in the derivation of Social Security’s cost of living (COLA) formula is the... More

A Medicare Memo to Campaign Reporters

Tailing Mitt on Medicare and Social Security, too

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 27, 2012 at 04:29 PM

Dear Colleagues: I have just returned from a reporting trip to Southeast Arkansas, where the folks I visited have very... More

A Missing Medicare Link from The New York Times

Covering Medicare, Part II

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM

Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More

Another Take on NPR’s “Liberal Bias”

Its reporting on Social Security is anything but

By Trudy Lieberman   Mar 16, 2011 at 04:48 PM

It was easy to understand why a story yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered appeared to favor the Republican position... More

Audit Notes: More Murdoch, Hiltzik on the Social Security Trust Fund

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2011 at 07:45 PM

A couple of weeks ago, Allan Sloan wrote about Rupert Murdoch is using $673 million of his shareholders' money to... More

Candidate Pawlenty and Social Security

What’s he really talking about?

By Trudy Lieberman   May 17, 2011 at 01:41 PM

Not long ago, presidential aspirant Tim Pawlenty sat down with reporters from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for a heart-to-heart about his... More

CBS Fumbles Again

A lopsided report on Social Security

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 29, 2010 at 01:15 PM

If there were prizes given for the most one-sided, misleading story about Social Security this year, a segment aired on... More

CJR Holds a Town Hall in Missouri

Do the pols represent the voters?

By Trudy Lieberman   Aug 22, 2011 at 03:25 PM

As Barack Obama’s bus cruised through the heartland last week, the media told us a fair amount about what the... More

CJR Holds a Town Hall in Philly

Shoppers on Market Street sound off

By Trudy Lieberman   Apr 25, 2011 at 01:48 PM

Finding myself in Philadelphia recently, I decided to stroll along Market Street and see which of the day’s big political... More

CNBC Misleads on “Welfare State” Dominance

Bad math overstates government payouts

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 9, 2011 at 10:20 AM

(UPDATE: See my follow-up post here: A Zombie Lie Is Born: CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide.) There... More