David Boaz touches on one of my pet peeves: the journalistic habit of judging Congress based on their “productivity.” The idea is that Congress is supposed to be a legislation factory, and something has gone wrong when output declines. I think that in the main reporters who suggest that Congress is doing better the more it legislates believe, falsely, that this storyline is ideologically neutral.
The "Productivity" of Congress: A Hidden Form of Media Bias↧