Joel Hefley: “today is the first installment of our Media Watch. Media Watch is an effort to cover the stories the networks will not…”

“today is the first installment of our Media Watch. Media Watch is an effort to cover the stories the networks will not cover, the stories which are distorted by liberals, and the stories which are buried in the back pages for political reasons. As always, there is a lot to choose from, but I think most people would agree that the way the major networks covered Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's comments on the Republican tax proposal deserves a second look. Anybody watching ABC, NBC, CBS or CNN would come away thinking that the Federal Reserve Chairman opposed the Republican tax cuts and felt them unwise. Well, Alan Greenspan's comments were not exactly as they were portrayed. In fact, the Chairman warned against more spending. Those comments were ignored. In fact, the Chairman said that if the choice were between more spending and tax cuts, he thought tax cuts made sense, and that more spending would be the worst of all outcomes. Surprise, surprise. We get spin from the networks.”