Once upon a time the news media would make it a point to cover the boring but complex stories that impacted the lives of their readers with the rule being the bigger the impact, the bigger the play and they would make it a point of pride to make the complexity understandable to anyone with a sixth-grade education
Yesterday, Sept. 29, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) vetoed a stopgap budget presented by the Republican-controlled legislature.
This means school districts and social services are not going to get the state subsidies upon which they have come to depend. This is going to impact many of their readers a lot.
The Delaware County Daily Times put the story on page 10 and The Philadelphia Inquirer ran it on page 4 of the B section.
The reason for Wolf’s veto was that the stopgap budget would not give him the massive tax increases he is demanding along with the massive of transfer of wealth from Republican-voting parts of the state to Democrat-voting ones.
The governor’s irresponsibility and unwillingness to compromise is scandalous.
The legislature passed a standard budget on June 30 which was 3.6 percent higher than the previous year and increased education spending by $100 million.
If those who work in the establishment media would stop picking sides and cover all equally and honestly, we would not end up with the Wolf’s and Kathleen Kane’s — neither of whom got serious critical scrutiny because they ran as Democrats — in positions of authority.
Pennsylvania Budget Ignored By Media