"All austerity stories are fake. I mean, they're not real," he said. "It's blaming the good things you want that you can't have because there have to be municipal cutbacks." He says police budgets just mindlessly ballooned $155 million over their ladder every time and literally nobody cares. The Fair of Asia got nonstop coverage in the Washington Examiner and the local affiliates.
In this public News Brief, "DC Media's 'Fare Evasion' Meltdown," we discuss local TV news, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal's breathless coverage of so-called "fare evasion" and how our media decides which theft to care about and which to ignore.