“Are the media capable of providing accurate and complete coverage of issues of public importance? Consider the coverage of President Bush’s State of the Union address. Forget the endless commentaries about the President’s demeanor and the congressional reaction. What did the President actually say? Did journalists recognize and report that President Bush, in an unprecedented development and break with previous policy, had proposed a tax increase on the middle class?” [editor’s note: This might be the first commentary to address the ’stealth tax’ created by the Bush program, under cover of offering the ‘big deduction’ on the other hand. - SAT] (01/27/07)