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Hickey, Baker Rip CNN/Peterson Deficit Show

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http://ourfuture.org discusses CNN’s decision to air four hours of programming based on conservative deficit propaganda from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which is subjected to a forceful take-down by Campaign for America’s Future co-director Roger Hickey and Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. CNN scheduled “I.O.USA: America’s Money Crisis” to air ...

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http://ourfuture.org discusses CNN’s decision to air four hours of programming based on conservative deficit propaganda from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which is subjected to a forceful take-down by Campaign for America’s Future co-director Roger Hickey and Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.



CNN scheduled “I.O.USA: America’s Money Crisis” to air during the weekend of April 10 and 11. “What we’re seeing here is a real campaign to get the country to focus on things like cutting Social security and Medicare as opposed to focusing on jobs, growth and investment,” Hickey says. Dean says Peterson, along with much of the media “has fundamentally mischaracterized both the near-term deficit problem and the long-term deficit problem.” We’ve called on CNN to either cancel this program or make it more balanced by including progressive solutions for addressing the budget deficit:


http://action.ourfuture.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=84



Dean Baker
Dean Baker is a macroeconomist and codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He is a regular Truthout columnist and a member of Truthout's Board of Advisers.

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