Media Malpractice on Debt Ceiling

[alp227]

There are specific patterns in corporate media coverage of political debates: Progressive ideas are generally marginalized. "Compromise" between the major parties is encouraged. Democrats should "move to the center," which in practical terms actually means moving to the right.

All of these tendencies have driven the discussion over the federal debt and the debt ceiling. In the end, the political process has produced an agreement that can be cheered by pundits and analysts for adhering to media's built-in bias for center-right economics and bogus ideas about centrism and political compromise.

Of the criticisms one can make of the media's coverage of this discussion--and there are plenty--here are five areas where media mangled the debt discussion.

--Why Is the Debt Ceiling Being Raised?
--'Balance' Bias
--Debate Way Off to the Right
--Finding the 'Center'
--Were There Budget Alternatives?

Full article: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4370

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, alp.

[Doctor_J]

2. David Gregory is really a cancer on this country

As hartmann noted yesterday, this malignant asshole just nods his head and smiles when a fascist Repuke tells a lie, no matter how big.

Edit: I am reasonably sure that high-level Republican operatives sign off on pretty much everyone who does "news" on TV and radio in the country. They seem to be around 95% Repukes.