Senate Republicans filibuster Buffett Rule

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5. James Fallows just posted on the headlines in NYT, WaPo and Forbes.

Today a majority of the Senate voted in favor of the "Buffett Rule," but the 51-45 "Yes" vote was not enough to overcome the Republicans' threatened filibuster.

Here is how the NYT, to its credit, reported and billed the story:



If you want a reminder of the path the NYT did not take, all you have to do is check out this lamentable Forbes.com report of the same development. The story is fine. But this flatly wrong headline???



"Fails" in the Senate? Unt-goddam-uh. It won majority support but was blocked in the Senate. The NYT has shown how easy it is to put it just that way. And the Washington Post too, with the "rejects consideration" terminology:



Thanks, Times and Post! We are clearer now about what is actually happening.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/false-equivalence-watch-nice-work-by-the-times-and-post/255993/