Accurate, But Fake

George Will dissects an all too typical "news" stories from the New York Times and the Washington Post.

From the Times: "A Times columnist disapprovingly said Cox ``is a big-business advocate.''

Leaving aside the vacuity of such labels -- what might it mean to be an ``advocate'' against ``big business'' and its big numbers of employees -- the ``big-business advocate'' obscures an interesting fact: Cox has been criticized by big-business interests because he opposed requiring employee stock options to be recorded on balance sheets as expenses."

From the Post: The Washington Post's headline on his nomination said: ``Congressman Has Taken Pro-Business Stances on Issues.''

Who today, one wonders, is ``anti-business''? And what does that mean?

These papers are evolving into caricatures of caricatures.