Thursday, July 23, 2015

3044 - Media rant


Here's is an article on Alternet about the topics the media doesn't cover because the "liberal media" doesn't exist.

The topics...

1. Where the jobs went.
2.  Upward wealth redistribution and/or inequality.
3. ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council).
4. The number of people in prison.
5. The number of black people in prison.
6. U.S. health care costs are the highest in the world.
7. Glass-Steagall (risky financial investments).
8. Gerrymandering (redistricting national congressional districts).
9. The number of bills blocked by Republicans in Congress.
10. The Citizens' United Supreme Court decision.
11. Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
12. Tax cuts primarily benefit the wealthy.
13. What's happening to the bees?
14. The impact of temporary workers on our economy.
15. Media consolidation.
     Six corporations - Time Warner, Disney, News Corporation, Viacom, Comcast, and CBS -control roughly 90% of the media in the U.S.

Liberal media? phtttttttt


4 comments:

Bilbo said...

Yes, that liberal mainstream media is destroying the country, isn't it?

eViL pOp TaRt said...

Are the NYTimes, the WaPo, MSNBC, and the LA Times figments of the imagination? What editorial stance does Comcast have, other than $$$?

Linda Kay said...

I'm wondering what kind of coaching and teaching one has to go through to put the preferred slant on the reporting of the news?

Cherdo said...

I'd trade all the media outlets in the world for one or two that would just report straight, unbiased news. My gut tells me it's all slanted and 75% misinformation. Who wants to dig out that pure 25%?

Then again, 25% may be optimistic.