Title: What "fair and balanced" really means
Product review: This book has been described -- and is -- a thorough, tough critique of Bush administration policy. But its virtue is in the fact that there are no cackling corporate cronies lighting cigars with $100-bills while they sketch out their plan to snatch food from poor children. This book looks at the numbers, looks at the facts, and lets a fair-minded reader draw conclusions for him/herself.This is true fair and balanced journalism. Fair doesn't mean "having no opinion" or midlessly weighing two points of view equally, whether or not they are equally true. "Fairness" is a dispassionate, thoughtful look at reality. In this case, the reality is that some very intelligent economists with a real dream of making America's economy stronger have a plan. The problem is that that plan might have some dangerous intended and unintended consequences. Altman's book lets the reader decide whether the gamble is worth it.
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