The Media Continues to Mis-lead!

[Joanne98]

The media continue to do more to misinform the public than to inform them when it comes to plans for fixing the financial system. Following the absolute worst in journalistic practices, a front page Washington Post article explains the Obama administration's policy by telling readers that the "approach reflects Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner's philosophy of how governments should respond to financial crises."

Trees had to die for this garbage? The reality is that the reporters have no clue as to what Timothy F. Geithner's philosophy of how governments should respond to financial crises. The reporter knows what Timothy F. Geithner told them, so why don't they just stick to passing this information along to readers instead of speculating about his innermost thoughts?

The excursion into philosophy deflects readers from the real issue. Mr. Geithner wants to use taxpayer dollars to keep bankrupt banks in business. In effect, he wants to tax teachers, fire fighters, and Joe the Plumber to protect the wealth of the banks' shareholders and to pay high salaries to their top executives. No readers of this piece would understand that this is the process being described.

The Post editorial page carried on with this deception. An editorial on saving the banks dismissed nationalization because it would involve the government in running the banks. Then it discusses the idea of buying bad assets and warns, "but there is a huge risk that the government would badly overpay in the first place."

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press_archive?month=02&year=2009&base_name=dealing_with_bankrupt_banks_na#112769

[tom_paine]

1. Of course they do. If they don't, they'll get in trouble from Corporate.

Here's the Modern GOP-Controlled M$M's idea of "investigative reporting":

(ring, ring) "Hello, Mr. Cheney. Did you do it? No? OK."

(hangs up phone) "I finsihed the investigation. Cheney says he didn't do it!"

Then, you know what comes NEXT on the M$M, ESPECIALLY TV, a week of 24/7 in which the M$M TRUMPETS LOUDLY EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR THAT CHENEY DIDN'T DO IT.

Of course, for Plausible Deniabilities sake, six or eight months or even years later, a quiet retraction will be whispered, in a handful of publications, NOT on TV, "Psst. Oh yeah. Evidence indicates that Cheney did in fact do it."

But no one will ever hear it, and those whispered retractions will soon be gone. Only the Lefty Blogosphere and they are UnPersons anyway. So what? The ussual 1,000,000 or so people who know the truth will know once again. So what? Nobody listen to the "New Jews" anyway.

The result: 99.67% of Americans will think a lie is the truth. Which is pretty much now how it is most of, if not ALL the time, living under the GOP-Controlled Media in America.

The 1,000,000 or so "New Jews" have been edited out of existance by the Bush False Reality Bubble - UNPERSONS as far as the Media Hologram is concerned

Welcome to the Brave New World Order.