Editorial

The NYT runs, on the front page, an editorial on the horrors of "entitlements" and the deficit on the front page, as a news story.

Wars, defense spending are not mentioned as candidates for reducing deficit spending, until the very last sentence:

Yet politicians’ failure to reduce deficits has long reflected voters’ opposition to the necessary steps. The poll also found that by a two-to-one ratio Americans oppose cutting health care and education; 51 percent oppose lower military spending.