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This news story has 21 comments:
You have to be kidding me right? The media no longer "reports" the news. It is about hype. It is about getting inside a persons head and getting them excited.
The financial media and all their anchors fall back to the same argument EVERY single time someone with any real credibility or brain power debunks this notion that the recession is over.
That argument is: "Well the S & P 500 is up 50% of the lows, so that means everything is OK now."
That is the only argument the self serving pundits on TV (whose sole job is to "convince" mom and pop americans to get their money in the market now) have to fall back on.
Things take time to occur. Maybe when the unemployment rate gets to 15%, 30 million people are unemployed, and the government just can't extend the unemployment/ welfare benefits anymore will people finally wake up and take back their country.
Right now I see none of that happening because I-Phones and reality TV are just way to important to the average American right now.
To answer the author's questions: The headlines you (we) would like to see do not fit the MSM agenda and are therefore not considered news at all.
Even many of the unemployed remain hopeful because they see the stock market going up. After all, that is what they saw in the last recession and there is no shortage of so-called experts reassuring them about the infallibility of the stock market.
Live by the Dow, die by the Dow.
When the media identifies with the rich, we have global parties followed by a global depression. When the media identifies with the poor, we have global unrest followed by global conflict. Followed eventually by a rainbow. Light appears, saves, expands, crystallizes, breaks; falls, shatters, disappears underground, rests, reconfigures itself, coalesces, rises, and re-appears as the symbolic rainbow. That's how we know it is Spring: the rainbow re-appears.
On Sep 05 01:36 PM Michael Clark wrote:
> The media is more fascinated with the lives of the rich and famous
> in New York, Washington and Hollywood. The media is, more and more,
> owned by the rich and famous who DO NOT WANT a deep, incisive media
> with a passion for social and economic issues and principles. FASHION.
> Michael Jackson was the story of the year, not the poor of the world
> who have been devastated by bankers' miscalculations. We're losing
> our democracy; and it is being replaced by the 'it's all good mentality'
> served up in tv and newspaper gossip magazines.
>
> When the media identifies with the rich, we have global parties followed
> by a global depression. When the media identifies with the poor,
> we have global unrest followed by global conflict. Followed eventually
> by a rainbow. Light appears, saves, expands, crystallizes, breaks;
> falls, shatters, disappears underground, rests, reconfigures itself,
> coalesces, rises, and re-appears as the symbolic rainbow. That's
> how we know it is Spring: the rainbow re-appears.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It does carry this warning:
"This page is about an active politician who is running for office, is in office and campaigning for re-election, or is involved in some current political conflict or controversy. Because of this, this article is at increased risk of biased editing, talk-page trolling, and simple vandalism."
However, to my eye it appeared to be detailed, non-judgemental, and objective without comment or the goodness or badness of a particular action by Van Jones, just a recounting of his life and activities he joined, founded, or in which he participated in a meaningful way.
If the bio is accurate he was and evidently remains, a communist, a radical, and of the genre of Obama's life: involved in NGOs, community organizing, righting the wrongs of what he sees as a racist, and unequal capitalist society ... and he does want to change that society to more closely conform to what his view of it should be. It's a free country. Let 'em try.
I am convinced they will fail simply because the model they would follow has already been tried and failed. But they could do a good deal damage if they do get the chance to make their dream a reality.
"Updated: Fox Airs So You Think You Can Dance, Glee Instead of Obama Address; Posted on 04 September 2009 by Bill Gorman
"It’s now official, FOX won’t carry the President’s address and will go with its regularly scheduled premieres on September 9."
Fox, a news organization to be proud of! And I understand Fox cleans the competition's clock on ratings. We're in deep kimche.
Thank you George W.
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Jack, gave you a +1. Sounds like you're a flaming moderate. ;-)
Thanks, don't know about the "flaming" - conservative moderate might be the best description. But thanks for the +1.