Just How Out of Touch is the M$M?

[Nbadan]

CNN thinks that putting lots more money on your kid's credit card isn't the same as spending some money to bring home troops now....


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What is amazing here is that they don't tell the whole story. The war-shills would say, "Well shoot! We should just stay in Iraq because it saves us money!" No, the longer we stay in Iraq the more of our children's money we spend. When we increase our debt we decrease our ability to pay for important things like health care and the Bush reccession... CNN chose not to tell it that way because it is more sensational to say, "Getting out of Iraq won't save us money!!!"

Then the eye-candy makes the "ha ha" that gee, politicians can't be trusted to tell the truth. Evidently, neither can CNN....

[BradLohaus]

I always wonder what these talking heads are like in real life.

[xrayzebra]

Damn, dan has children. We are doomed!

[PixelPusher]

I should run up my credit card because, hey, I'm not going to "save" any money by not running it up!

[Nbadan]

While the M$M drags us under the bus, check out what Abu Dabi is doing with your money...


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[Nbadan]

I don't wanna hijack G-man thread about the divided Demo party harping about the M$M so I continue my thoughts on the subject here....Moyers wrote an interesting article about this subject that deserves some face time...

Is the Fourth Estate a Fifth Column?
Corporate media colludes with democracy’s demise


Our media institutions, deeply embedded in the power structures of society, are not providing the information that we need to make our democracy work. To put it another way, corporate media consolidation is a corrosive social force. It robs people of their voice in public affairs and pollutes the political culture. And it turns the debates about profound issues into a shouting match of polarized views promulgated by partisan apologists who trivialize democracy while refusing to speak the truth about how our country is being plundered.

Our dominant media are ultimately accountable only to corporate boards whose mission is not life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for the whole body of our republic, but the aggrandizement of corporate executives and shareholders.

These organizations’ self-styled mandate is not to hold public and private power accountable, but to aggregate their interlocking interests. Their reward is not to help fulfill the social compact embodied in the notion of “We, the people,” but to manufacture news and information as profitable consumer commodities.

Democracy without honest information creates the illusion of popular consent at the same time that it enhances the power of the state and the privileged interests that the state protects. And nothing characterizes corporate media today more than its disdain toward the fragile nature of modern life and its indifference toward the complex social debate required of a free and self-governing people.

In these Times (http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3790/is_the_fourth_estate_a_fifth_column)