There were two items in Saturday's NY Times that illustrate its left leanings and increasingly shoddy jounalism:
1. Floyd Norris did a piece looking at which states have the highest percentage of government employees. His data tries to show that those states vote republican, not democratic as he would have expected. He doesn't expressly state any conclusion, but his implication is clear: republicans are hypocritical is striving for smaller government. Since the piece doesn't offer any other explanations or analysis, that conclusion is the only one possible.
That's a pretty farfetched conclusion. I strongly suspect the explanations for the anomaly have much to do with who works for the government and where those jobs are, not someone's politics. For example, military employees live on and around military bases, the largest of which are in large, sparsely populated states. But Norris chooses not to make those kinds of logical inquiries, presumably because doing so would likely destroy his implication.
2. A long article on the Obamacare/government shutdown issue by Jonathan Weisman and Ashley Parker contains no reference to the very hot issue of Congressional health care subsidies, an issue liberals would like to bury. There is one reference to that issue: the caption underneath a small picture says that "a provision in the health care law protects the insurance subsidy for members of Congress." Of course, that's dead wrong. The law DOESN'T protect a subsidy, which is why the Office of Personnel Management is trying to backdoor a subsidy with no legal justification. Apparently Mr. Weisman and Ms. Parker prefer misleading readers to dealing with uncomfortable subjects.
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