AP, WaPo Peddle Right-Wing Anti-Transportation Framing As 'News'

By Isaiah J. Poole

March 5, 2012 - 6:08pm ET 

As the Senate prepares to take up a well-intentioned, if sorely inadequate, transportation funding bill this week, the Associated Press distributed a "news" story Monday that offered little "news" but much in the way of ideological framing for the opponents of federal transportation spending.

And, as if the AP story itself wasn't enough of a screed worthy of RedState, The Washington Post's web site used a headline—really, more of a statement than a headline—that sealed the deal: "Highway bills pitched by lawmakers as job generators, but are they really? Economists say no."