Dave Lindorff: America’s Happy News Media
Lindorff..
say one thing about China – People there knew they were being fed a line of crap in their newspapers and on TV. What about here in the US? We are getting fed the same line of crap by our media, but it’s not owned by the state … we get happy news. Unemployment compensation filings are down. The number of people collecting long-term unemployment benefits is down. Unemployment is “only” 9.6% of the workforce. In China, people would laugh wryly at the articles in the paper, or crack jokes at the cheerful newscasters on their TVs. In America, we assume what we’re reading and hearing is the truth, and we are cheered by the news
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