Since apologists for the Statesman have injured sensibilities when they see their precious paper criticized wp2 shall label the following observations for the week.
Three stories jump out at us with the first from the front page on appropriations from Congress. Prior to their rants about Senator Craig they use to praise appropriations for Idaho’s universities. Now they call it “pork” in their headline.
A story this week on Idaho’s economy also took a negative turn rather than report it as the good news is is for the state. While Idaho had the third fastest growing state economy and increased income by $2000 a year the Statesman still reported it as bad news.
Finally, rather than report university fees in relative terms they chose to portray fee increases as
something that would stop students from attending….at least the headline. They finally did point out in the jump that Idaho is below the Western state average in cost and the third lowest in the West.
