The GOP recently succeed in pushing their 2012 RSC budget plan, which is estimated to cut anywhere between 3.5 trillion and 6 trillion (news sources vary) over the next ten to twelve years. During my skimming of the news on this latest GOP success, I noticed that that different news papers chose to include different details in their titles.
The New York Times: "House Passes GOP Budget Budget Plan with no Democratic Votes"
The Wallstreet Journal: "House Passes GOP Budget Plan"
The Associated Press: "House Passes GOP Budget Plan Cutting 6.2T from Obama Budget, Promising Medicare Overhaul"
While all of the details are factual, the titles frame the issue in a specific way so that while reading the articles, the reader is focused on some issues over another. Is it bias, or simply an angle? The Wallstreet Journal seems to have the most accurate and least biased title out of these three papers. Maybe in the newspaper article titling business, less is more.
I suspect just an angle. After all, there's also space considerations for headlines.
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