Condomínio de Ideias

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/16/crisis-addled-washingtonlurchestowardthenextone0.html Crisis-addled Washington careens toward the next debacle by  Naureen Khan     @naureenindc     October 16, 2013     11:48AM ET     Updated 10:24PM ET Deep, systemic factors drive dysfunction in Washington while fundamental differences separate the parties Topics:   Congress   Debt Ceiling   Shutdown Members of the U.S. House of Representatives depart after a late-night vote on fiscal legislation to end the government shutdown, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, late Wednesday. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, conceded defeat Wednesday, as the House of Representatives fell in line with the Senate in voting for a bill to avert a national debt default and end the 16-day government shutdown largely on terms laid down by President Barack Obama....

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/1/reporting-governmentshutdowndemocracy.html Shutdown coverage fails Americans by  Dan Froomkin     @froomkin     October 1, 2013     3:45PM ET Commentary: We need journalists to hold politicians accountable for extremist actions, not to enable them Topics:   U.S.   Shutdown   Media A man reads morning newspapers from around the U.S. at the Newseum in Washington, Oct. 1, 2013.  Gary Cameron/Reuters U.S. news reports are largely blaming the government shutdown on the inability of both political parties to come to terms. It is supposedly the result of a "bitterly divided" Congress that "failed to reach agreement" ( Washington Post ) or "a bitter budget standoff" left unresolved by "rapid-fire back and forth legislative maneuvers" ( New York Times ). This sort of false equivalence is not just a failure of journalism. It ...