Unfit To Report

[unrepentant progress]

Some more solid reporting about Chana Joffe-Walt and her hit piece on disability beneficiaries from Mark Ames at NSFWCorp. The original is paywalled, but you can read the full piece at the link.

So the mystery of Chana Joffe-Walt’s ideological baggage is solved: She’s an austerity-theorist, just like her boss Adam Davidson and just like their show’s sole sponsor, Ally Bank (which just happened to take over $17 billion in taxpayer bailout money). No blame from Chana Joffe-Walt for the financial industry, despite all the illegal, fraudulent, corrupt things they’ve been caught doing over and over and over to profit off debt. No, Chana believes it’s all the teachers, postal workers, and lake-dryer-uppers’ fault. She also wants you to know that without “difficult” choices, such as robbing your pensions and reducing your income, America will turn into Greece, that terrible place, full of lake-dryer-uppers.

Chana Joffe-Walt’s job, selling bank propaganda to ostensibly progressive media, seems to run in her family. Chana’s brother, Benjamin Joffe-Walt, works in the heart of the Mega-Bank propaganda business, as a Washington DC-based “Strategic Communications & Public Relations Specialist” currently heading Change.org’s public relations.

Benjamin is using Change.org exactly the same way his sister is using NPR: exploiting a trusted source to churn out corporate PR. Change.org used to be one of the most successful progressive grassroots organizing outfits, a site for online petitions that translate into political action. Then late last year, Change.org was furtively taken over by the PR industry, monetizing the credibility Change.org had built up and making it available to front-groups, the public relations industry and advertisers.

http://seniorsforademocraticsociety.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/public-radio/

[annabanana]

1. Change.org!?. . (damn)

It pays to peek behind the curtains every once in a while....

[bananas]

2. "monetizing the credibility Change.org had built up and making it available to front-groups"

"Then late last year, Change.org was furtively taken over by the PR industry, monetizing the credibility Change.org had built up and making it available to front-groups, the public relations industry and advertisers."

Wow!

[kristopher]

3. Thanks for linking to this post. nt