Although both political parties have different views regarding which sort of budget we will have in the future, we have finally at least sat down to conference. This past Wednesday both major parties had a conference meeting in order to be able to hash out the differences between them. Surprisingly enough, I did not see many media outlets cover the conference nor pay much attention to it. I assume once we begin to inch closer to the deadline in March they will pay more attention. Since they hadn't given it much attention, I decided to look back during last year's budget battles. I found an astonishing article in Media Matters that deals with how many economists had been interviewed on the major networks. Media Matters says, "
In a recently published study of news segments discussing current budget negotiations, Media Matters found that the presence of economists was sorely lacking - out of 503 total guests in the 337 segments analyzed, only 22 were economists."
Why do y'all think this is? In an economic debate, shouldn't economists lead the way in what prescription best fits the country? I think it is quite shameful.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/12/13/economists-and-economics-absent-from-media-cove/191837
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