It’s important that the media not tell any old truth — vibes, unrealiable poll results, etc. — but give the public substantive truths we the people people need to understand in order to be well-informed citizens/voters. For example people need to know the truth about our economy and the success of Bidenomics. Instead our mainstream “liberal” media has spent over a year giving people the misimpression that Biden caused inflation with his spending programs and refusing to inform the public that inflation was a global phenomenon and that the US inflation was no higher than other developed countries even ones that spent far less during covid. I rarely see anyone in the media acknowledge that we have had the strongest growth in both GDP and jobs of all advanced countries or that in recent months income growth has outpaced inflation — inflation that is now back to near normal levels. Dana Bash made that obvious in her interview with Kamala as David Rothkopf described in the Daily Beast:
“…… Bash began with the questions that might as well have been sent to her directly from some fax machine at Mar-a-Lago. Bash asserted that there was some sort of economic crisis in America—albeit the economy has shown record growth, led the world’s top economies, created an unprecedented number of jobs, and seen the stock market hit new highs. There was, she asserted “a crisis of affordability” and she said that led voters to want to go back to the Trump economy?
When Harris rightly pushed back and spoke about the strengths in the economy while also smartly identifying ways she would bring down the cost of living further, Bash asked the VP, nearly sneering, if that meant Harris thought… Bidenomics… gak… was a success?”
This is the same media that refuses to acknowledge that Reagonomics tax cuts for the rich blew up the national debt but added little to the already growing economy but did lead to worsening economic inequality.
Brian, here’s my take on what is happening with corporate media:
https://open.substack.com/pub/mmansour/p/the-media-horse-race-coverage?r=tcxup&utm_medium=ios
Critical work!
It’s important that the media not tell any old truth — vibes, unrealiable poll results, etc. — but give the public substantive truths we the people people need to understand in order to be well-informed citizens/voters. For example people need to know the truth about our economy and the success of Bidenomics. Instead our mainstream “liberal” media has spent over a year giving people the misimpression that Biden caused inflation with his spending programs and refusing to inform the public that inflation was a global phenomenon and that the US inflation was no higher than other developed countries even ones that spent far less during covid. I rarely see anyone in the media acknowledge that we have had the strongest growth in both GDP and jobs of all advanced countries or that in recent months income growth has outpaced inflation — inflation that is now back to near normal levels. Dana Bash made that obvious in her interview with Kamala as David Rothkopf described in the Daily Beast:
“…… Bash began with the questions that might as well have been sent to her directly from some fax machine at Mar-a-Lago. Bash asserted that there was some sort of economic crisis in America—albeit the economy has shown record growth, led the world’s top economies, created an unprecedented number of jobs, and seen the stock market hit new highs. There was, she asserted “a crisis of affordability” and she said that led voters to want to go back to the Trump economy?
When Harris rightly pushed back and spoke about the strengths in the economy while also smartly identifying ways she would bring down the cost of living further, Bash asked the VP, nearly sneering, if that meant Harris thought… Bidenomics… gak… was a success?”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kamala-harris-hits-it-out-of-the-park-cnn-not-so-much?ref=author
This is the same media that refuses to acknowledge that Reagonomics tax cuts for the rich blew up the national debt but added little to the already growing economy but did lead to worsening economic inequality.