Media's 'Silent Spring' ; Good News On Budget Ignored

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Good news normally gets the silent treatment in the "Mainstream Media." And it's often totally submerged if it's about Republicans. So it's no surprise that when the House and Senate passed the fiscal 2006 budget resolution conference report a couple of weeks ago, parched Hill observers had to strain to find droplets of coverage in an ocean of tales of alleged scandal and political conflagration.

Yet despite the media's "silent spring" on budget matters, the agreement promises a fruitful harvest for Republicans this autumn as they try to govern. "It not only lays out a roadmap for the rest of the year, but it gives us the tools we need to keep our fiscal house in order," House Budget Committee Chairman Jim Nussle of Iowa told me last week. "It makes a lot of tough decisions a little easier down the road. Particularly for our friends in the Senate, where having a budget blueprint takes some things that were probably impossible and puts them into the realm of possibility," he said.

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Media's 'Silent Spring' ; Good News On Budget Ignored

Mr. Nussle agrees the budget success got short shrift. "It's definitely good news and that's why it got ignored," he said. Lost in the icy media coverage, though, are a variety of ...

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