I really want to call them media whores, but...anyway they sold out 97% of us last night, imo. In this video, I capture them tossing out Red Meat to the GOP to insure The Jobs Bill will be Dead on Arrival: "Paid For With Tax Hikes"
Or, as Nora O'Donnell frames it: "....is it fair to say....that the President believes that the wealthiest Americans should pay more in order to pay for his Jobs Bill?"
Well, yeah Nora. You got a problem with that you corporate puppet! I wish I could be Press Secretary for just one day! Like many here, I think we could better groom the press.
Take note in the video of Nora O'Donnell reading her text message just before asking her question. Getting your marching orders, Nora?
Any reservations we may have had about the MSM's (mass media) allegiance was were tossed out the window last night. The MSM seems about as committed as the GOP to frame The Jobs Bill as another Democratic tax hike and another government spending program. In short, help The Jobs Bill become Dead on Arrival.
In fairness (nausea emerges), the news anchors need their jobs, too. And I am sure they earn more than $200K individually, so yes, The Jobs Bill might affect them if they have more than one home.* BUT THEY ARE JOURNALISTS. Yet, they contort the facts to appease the likes of Grover Norquist, or at least that is what it sounded like to me last night.
What could they have said?
They could have said the truth:
In order to help the 9%-30% un and under-employed Americans return to work with living wages AND to insure a decent education for ALL children and safety for the other 97% of Americans, the President is proposing raising revenue by reducing PRIVILEGED DEDUCTIONS for 1-3% of American taxpayers who have enjoyed historically low rates for nearly 30 years.
Words matter.
And the White House seems nearly incapable of framing an issue. This would work:
We are proposing revenue to help the 97% by REDUCING a small portion of PRIVILEGED DEDUCTIONS for the 1-3%.
Is that so hard? Geesh, team DKOS can frame issues better than the White House!
Americans need jobs! College grads need jobs! 30%, 1 of 3 families in America, are barely squeaking by.
Again, the media and the GOP are arguing the merits of The Jobs Bill because the top 1-3% are angry about not being able to deduct real estate taxes on their 2nd, 3rd, 4th, maybe all the way up to their 7th homes, like John McCain has?
So the mass media broadcasts that The Jobs Bill will be paid for by tax hikes.
Seriously flawed reporting. I will say that at least ABC presented the items a bit more clearly.
Many of us have lost total faith in the MSM to report the truth. But last nights unabashed representation of the 1-3% being picked on by "tax hikes" and disregarding that 97% of Americans are struggling to survive topped the cake, imo. What a shocking disregard for the true plight of the people of this country whether Independent, Democratic, or Republican.
The media is aiding and abetting the very Greed that got us into this mess, imo.
Another diariest has done an excellent job demonstrating just how horridly inadequate our news sources have become.
I highly recommend this diary:
No Sex, But Lies and Videotape Aplenty by Marianna76
Thomas Jefferson said, "Whenever a people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
If we're losing an unbiased news media, then are we losing our democracy. Have we? Have we lost any semblence of unbiased reporting presented by the Corporate News media? In this economy, I would guess that millions of Americans only news sources are the three networks and PBS so it is critical that at least these four outlets remain unbiased.
As an aside and lastly, until we have publicly financed elections, all candidates will be nothing but The Powers That Be tools, Obama included.
It's so blatant it makes my head explode. And lowering SSI contributions from paychecks WILL NOT CREATE JOBS. This will just make retirees and about to retirees nervous. And providing $4,000 per employee tax credit to the very corporations that have refused to use their record profits to hire to date.....well, nucken futs. Write a check for $4,000 to each 99er instead!
100% of the money needs to go directly to jobs for people to work.
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My sources for the video are:
Sources:
CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
NBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/...
ABC
http://abcnews.go.com/...
White Press Briefing, 9/12/2011
http://www.whitehouse.gov/...
Wage Chart, from 2009
http://www.economicpopulist.org/...
Chart taken from this Social Security Online Report
http://www.ssa.gov/...
Income Ranges, by quintiles
http://www.cbo.gov/...
Average Tax Rates by quintile
http://www.cbo.gov/...
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*DISCLOSURE: I own two homes! I am more than happy to SHARE THE SACRIFICE to help get people back to work. In fact, maybe I won't deduct either of my homes this year.
THIS IS THE AMERICAN SPIRIT I was raised with.