Oh, say it ain’t so!
First, the New York Times gives the White House a smart salute and drops “private accounts” in favor of “personal accounts.”
Now TPM friend Mark Murray of NBC News is signing on to the White House’s new lexical directive and calling them “personal accounts” as well. From what we can tell, Mark and his colleagues at NBC’s daily “First Read” were calling them “private accounts” as recently as 9:20 AM this morning.
Mark, please tell us this was a diktat from GE or Jeff Zucker and not something you came up with on your own …
