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COMMENTS: Worth a Thousand Words
Sharyl Attkisson on CBS likes to cultivate a mood of outrage for her Follow the Money features about porkbarrel spending. The target for her ire this time was Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, the recipient of $1.8m in earmarked appropriations from local members of Congress. Her complaint on the audio track was that the aquarium is such a "spectacular showplace" with 2m annual visitors and corporate sponsors that it needs no additional federal dollars. Yet the videotape she showed undercut her words: her montage of wondrous marine life was so fascinating to watch that they conveyed an argument of money well spent.
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