They ignore a lot of good news and distort some of it to make it sound bad. They'll scour and dig for the slightest whiff of negative news and then blow it up like it's the biggest disaster of the day. They have earned the nickname "Drive-By Media" for a reason.

Uh... That's not quite true either. Look at the time line on that graph. Then check this one. I can't give someone much credit for cutting a deficit a little bit when he is responsible for pooping in his own bed in the first place. You made the mess...you clean it up!

http://zfacts.com/p/519.html

It seems some people are still clutching at straws and the Bush admiistration will do at least one thing right. Jeeezeee... wake the hell up people! There is NOTHING this guy does that is honest and straight forward. The Dems of today, save for a few are just as bad. Believe NO ONE when it comes down to spending your hard earned money.

Before you were so improperly interrupted with the very same negative-only propaganda as was being discussed,......... I agree, and besides that, it's obvious. Deficit getting back down, troop casualty levels down, any good news suppressed if it goes against the liberal media agenda.

At least mooner knows it's all of them. They're two sides of the same coin. Playing roles in a game of deceit.

. I can't give someone much credit

You don't have to. Why would you?
Bush, himself has as little, personally to do with this as he did with the increase, I think.

Well it depends on who and how you do the accounting. For example if you take into effect the Social Security IOU syndrome, the picture looks very different.

Here is a little instructional video for ya....

If anyone has any real doubts about how the American Economy is doing, just look at our (Canada's) dollar compared to yours...

Your fed is about to cut interest rates again. The housing markets for all effects & purposes has crashed there, etc.

Our central bank is about to either leave our interest rate alone or increase it by 1/4%. Our housing market is booming (especially out west). Our dollar is about to hit another all time high (currently at 1.0283 USD)

So I'd say there are probably more important financial stories for the papers to be covering than your government has doctored their finances so that the deficit "appears" to be lowering.

The papers aren't ignoring the deficit. I found this in the first article I clicked on from my google search.

The Cincinnati Post:

The national debt - the accumulated deficits - is headed toward $9.8 trillion and just paying the interest on that sum is now the fourth largest category of federal spending.

The Congressional Budget Office is projecting the deficit will decline further this fiscal year, to $155 billion, but then it is expected to start rising again, probably sharply.