Note to DU, Krugman and the like: ****AMERICA'S NEWS MEDIA IS FUCKIN SLOPPY!!!!!****

[uponit7771]

Seeing Krugman get pulled into some of the America's sloppy M$M group think is disappointing to say the least. If someone so word careful as him is getting pulled into taking what America's lying M$M is sayin at face value it would be a good bet to believe that a good number of DU'ers and LIVs are too...


I used to work for a major media ...outlet (to KIS) ...and know for a fact that America's media is 10 times worse at group think than say Germany or South Africa. They don't think for themselves and piggy back off stories THEY (yes, most of them live in a thicker bubble than people who are in congress, WH could ever dream of) think are news worthy.

For profit news media does this

Your thoughts?

TIA

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. Water is wet. nt

[uponit7771]

3. lol....I have to remind folk of this often where I work...it's like...almost impossible for people..

...to remember this little fact

[wtbymark]

2. There hasn't been a true newscast in over 20 years n/t

[AllentownJake]

4. I think the evidence on how the administration feels towards wall street

Is more evidenced by administration policy.

Don't ask what I think, you won't like the answer to that question.

[uponit7771]

7. Wall street is giving hand over fist to gop candidates, I'l look at where the money is goin

[spiritual_gunfighter]

10. Look harder

Barack Obama (D)
Top Contributors

This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2008 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.

Because of contribution limits, organizations that bundle together many individual contributions are often among the top donors to presidential candidates. These contributions can come from the organization's members or employees (and their families). The organization may support one candidate, or hedge its bets by supporting multiple candidates. Groups with national networks of donors - like EMILY's List and Club for Growth - make for particularly big bundlers.

University of California $1,591,395
Goldman Sachs $994,795
Harvard University $854,747
Microsoft Corp $833,617
Google Inc $803,436
Citigroup Inc $701,290
JPMorgan Chase & Co $695,132
Time Warner $590,084
Sidley Austin LLP $588,598
Stanford University $586,557
National Amusements Inc $551,683
UBS AG $543,219
Wilmerhale Llp $542,618
Skadden, Arps et al $530,839
IBM Corp $528,822
Columbia University $528,302
Morgan Stanley $514,881
General Electric $499,130
US Government $494,820
Latham & Watkins $493,835

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=200...

[Political Heretic]

5. What did Krugman do, exactly?

[Bitwit1234]

6. SLOPPY - oh no that's not the word

lazy, stupid and liars...is more like it.

[backscatter712]

8. True. See the full context of Obama's quote about "not begrudging executives bonuses?"

I'll give you a hint. That's not what he said.

The full quote from Bloomberg:

QUESTION: Let’s talk bonuses for a minute: Lloyd Blankfein, $9 million; Jamie Dimon, $17 million. Now, granted, those were in stock and less than what some had expected. But are those numbers okay?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, look, first of all, I know both those guys. They’re very savvy businessmen. And I, like most of the American people, don’t begrudge people success or wealth. That’s part of the free market system. I do think that the compensation packages that we’ve seen over the last decade at least have not matched up always to performance. I think that shareholders oftentimes have not had any significant say in the pay structures for CEOs.

I found the complete quote of President Obama here:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/11/113451/646

I'll take "Quotes taken out of context" for a thousand, Alex...

[freddie mertz]

9. That is still very very bad.

Just saying.

I wish he HADN"T said it.