Recent news media coverage of the tax debate in Congress borrows heavily from misleading liberal Democratic talking points, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told viewers of today's edition of "Fox & Friends."
"Eighty percent of the time, the media have it wrong," the Media Research Center founder noted, referring to an MRC study on coverage of the debate on whether or not to extend the Bush tax cuts set to expire at the end of 2010. Many mainstream media journalists have been portraying the congressional Republican position to be advocating tax cuts, rather than what it really is: keeping tax rates at their current levels, thus preventing a tax increase.
"The fact of the matter is we are broke because our spending is out of control, it's not our taxes [being too low]," Bozell complained regarding the media portraying extending the about-to-expire Bush tax cuts as "costing" the government money.
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