The New York Times Runs an Editorial on the Deficit in the News Section

The NYT ran a piece in the news section bemoaning the failure of the supercommittee. The piece includes numerous assertions expressing the paper's unhappiness with the failure of the supercommittee that have no basis in reality.

For example, it told readers:

"The failure of the committee — which had been dubbed, with typical inside-the-Beltway grandiosity, the "supercommittee" — led to predictable, if bitter, kryptonite jokes. But it also prompted wrenching questions about whether Congress...