Bias,

the subtle difference

Intro to Journalism

Warmup 1.) What is a budget and do you anyone that makes a budget? 2.) How often to do you go over budget, how about under? 3.) Deficit means debt. What is the problem when youre in debt? Do you think its the same for a country or different? Reading 1.) Read the underline words and phrases. Are they positive or negative? Use a dictionary if you dont know the word. 2.) When youre finished read the three articles. Republicans rip 'unbalanced' budget proposal, bristle at proposed tax hikes
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/10/republicans-rip-unbalanced- budget-proposal-bristle-at-proposed-tax-hikes/#ixzz2Q6fEwXp4

Republicans ripped President Obama's long-awaited budget proposal Wednesday, describing it as a "reheated" plan that revives controversial tax hikes in the name of deficit reduction without ever balancing the budget. The 2014 plan, delivered to Congress Wednesday morning, was pitched by Obama as a compromise twinning [attaching] tax increases, which Republicans dislike, with changes to Social Security, which liberal Democrats despise. "I have already met Republicans more than halfway," Obama said in the Rose Garden Wednesday. But Republican leaders, while praising the president for proposing a change to curb the growth of Social Security, said they had no interest in agreeing to new tax increases for a budget that wouldn't balance anyway. "We don't need an extreme unbalanced budget that won't balance in your lifetime or mine," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on the floor Wednesday. Obama unveils new budget plan and gets tepid Republican response By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17688971-obama-unveils-new-budget- plan-and-gets-tepid-republican-response?lite

President Barack Obama unveiled his proposed Fiscal Year 2014 budget plan Wednesday in the White House Rose Garden, offering a combination of new spending initiatives and tax increases aimed at creating jobs and reducing future budget deficits. In his remarks, Obama called his plan a fiscally responsible blueprint for middle-class jobs and growth. He said, We can grow our economy and shrink our deficits. In fact, as we saw in the 1990s, nothing shrinks deficits faster than a growing economy. He acknowledged that too many Americans still looking for work and said hed address that problem by new spending which he called targeted investments in areas which will create jobs right now. He called for $1 billion on creation of new manufacturing innovation institutes. Instructor: Joe Milan Jr.

Bias, the subtle difference

Intro to Journalism

Obama Budget Packed With Hard-To-Pass Stimulus Measures

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/obama-budget-stimulus_n_3055069.html

WASHINGTON -- The unveiling of President Barack Obama's budget on Wednesday morning has restarted the ongoing debate over how best to pursue deficit reduction. The president's proposal couples [attaches] tax hikes with cuts to the federal government's safety net for the poor and elderly to achieve $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction over 10 years. Alongside an austere [severe] House Republican budget and a more progressive-minded Senate Democratic blueprint, the White House pitched its proposal as a "serious" effort towards finding "middle ground." Lost in the analysis is that the White House budget acknowledges the nation is still in the midst of a jobs crisis but provides few new ideas to address the problem. The $3.7 trillion budget includes a variety of stimulative measures, some of which are new. But lawmakers have seen most of them before and aren't any likelier to pass them now. Discussion 1.) What are the differences in the three articles? 2.) Looking at the three articles, which one would you say is politically conservative, liberal, or neutral? 3.) In what ways do you see bias in the three articles above? Do you think that the bias makes the stories less fair and honest?

Instructor: Joe Milan Jr.