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From: miller@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Liberal media bias
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Date: Sat, 20-Oct-84 19:36:00 EDT
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Nf-From: uiucdcs!miller    Oct 20 18:36:00 1984

Concerning the liberal (TV) media bias, remember CBS' "Reagan Price Index"?
On the day he took office, they went out and bought a variety of items in some
grocery store.  They then normalized the price to $10.
At periodic intervals past that point (twice a month as I recall) CBS went and
bought the exact same items.  They then told us:
"What cost 10 dollars when Reagan took office now costs" *ching* (sound of cash
register) "10 dollars and 11 cents".
So what happened once the president got his budget through Congress and infla-
tion dropped from the Carter/Mondale double-digit days to the low value it's at
now?
Hello?  CBS?  Are you out there? I can't heeeeear you.

A. Ray Miller
Univ Illinois

P.S.  Stick with CNN.  There you get to hear both sides...