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Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu
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Lots of truth here about what centrist ideology demands and being called "partisan." Other factors too. A sunk cost fallacy: years of failing to describe the GOP as the high deficit, starve-the-beast party gave reporters a psychological investment in continuing the charade.) And—
You know that tone of voice people summon when they say, "Hate to tell you this, but..." It's the bearer-of-difficult-news voice. DC journalists are vulnerable to this affectation: that they are the bearers of difficult budget news. They thought they saw in Ryan a kindred spirit.
Another way to understand this sad, bitterly comic, but ultimately pathetic error is the counter-factual. If there really was in charge of the GOP a fiscal disciplinarian who knew the numbers and had the will, what would that have meant for the story DC journalists get to tell?
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