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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MARC Rider" data-source="post: 963470" data-attributes="member: 5030">It would also be more helpful if journalists would take the effort to dig up these legislators' records regarding transit funding rather than taking the lazy way out and simply be a stenographer simply quoting the legislator.I really hate it when the media use valuable airtime (or column inches) to simply record the bloviating of an elected official, thus letting these guys control the narrative.  That's one reason I like listening to the BBC World Service, as they do that a lot less than American media outlets and are usually content to simply paraphrase the essence of what the politician said, and in a lot fewer words than the politician uses.Unfortunately, the BBC World Service doesn't usually report on transit funding issues in American cities, but maybe the MBTA stuff is unique enough in that so many bad things are happening one right after the other that it might be newsworthy to an international audience.</blockquote>