It's too much news. The media is owned and it's owners don't want the American people to know who is to blame. If things get bad enough, the blame will be pointed at the people or person who who the media owners want the public to blame. In this case it will not be blamed on the Republican filibuster because most average people won't know about it. Take you own guess who or what will be blamed by the misinformed or uninformed. That's the game.

-Laelth

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What gets highlighted in "The News" are the handful of people who DO manage to find their way out of the Labyrinth of Poverty through hook, crook, or unbelievable good luck.
They are HIGHLIGHTED, and reinforce the myth that Anybody in America can do this if they Work hard.
It is a subtle way of blaming the poor.

Just more perpetuation of the myth and propaganda that it's the fault of those that get dumped on in this economy.

cute puppy stories.

Let's hope the millions who are being deprived of unemployment benefits remember which party did this to them.

"MSNBC Devoted Over 30 Minutes Of Coverage To Unemployment Benefits Vote. MSNBC devoted 12 segments to the Senate vote on unemployment benefits, for a total of 32 minutes and 26 seconds of coverage on February 6."

and frankly, I don't know how much more coverage you want on an already totally dysfunctional government ...

If you are so pissed about this, then lets do something substantial about it ... not just gripe, whine on this blog ...

But what? The people I know who are working, are putting in at least 40 hours a week, sometimes more & without extra pay. Most of them are in fear that their job will be put on the chopping block next or if they rock the boat they will be replaced. Oh, those crafty at will laws! Those that aren't working have no money. Many don't have transportation. If you have no time & you have no money, what do you do? How do you join progressive organizations & go to meetings & make a difference if you are scared of losing your job or have no job.

I don't have the answer. But I think a critical mass of people have to get to the point where they have nothing left to lose & we're not there yet. After that? I don't know. Shock Doctrine is being played out, right here in the good ole USA.


on edit: Do you know how few people get MSNBC?

And as for the internet, people aren't going to source that on their own. They need to see it on broadcast TV.

I look forward to a discussion of what to do, either now, or later.

totally expected at this point.

Network news is soooo last century and totally obsolete ...unless you like living under a rock.

It only makes news if it bleeds, if it's salacious, or if it affects the darlings of the social elite. Something that can quickly trigger some sort of adrenaline or can garner quick ratings in a short attention span theater atmosphere. Read the news, then go on to the next crisis or cuddle story. Don't ever think of giving the consumer of "news" anything they might need to think about. It's "Infotainment" now, not news.

Heck, historically, Corporate Media wouldn't even cover strikes unless they could vilify the strikers "in their low, criminal, unpatriotic, immoral crusade to steal from their generous and obviously worthy owners - err, betters".

You find out about what happens to the long-term unemployed in the police blotter archives, in cold government statistics or in the occasional novel by a journalist/writer. Not ever from Corporate media.

Haele

that they do not take sides on a story ... and as chuck todd indicated in a reare moment of truth, reporting facts is clearly taking a side on a story.

But interestingly, sports reporting lists scores, every day! I move that media outlets be required to report on politics the way they report on sporting events.

Working 2 jobs trying to keep a roof over your head and your family fed with some kind health insurance, and then it's boom, hit the ground running the next day doing the same stuff.

They don't want that fraction of a moment he looks at the television to have any substance at all. Cause if he figure's out why he's working so hard and going nowhere, he might start asking more questions.

-p

Paraphrasing Rep. Grayson: Don't get poor, but if you do get poor, disappear quickly.

This just in: Poor persecuted rich people... film at 11...

for your chart.

Controlling and owning the media so as to make the conservative viewpoint dominant was essential to a Repub-dominated country.

The entire country could be on fire and if it didn't cross the borders of the NY media market, the fluff would continue.

day in la la land America. Sadly, history well might write America as a failed experiment, destroyed from within by greed, corruption, selfishness and egocentrical thinking. Where the few $$$$$ destroyed the masses. ... as MSM led the way by ignoring reality. In short, MSM does not give a fuck!

when the checks stop coming
There is an election in '14 you know!!!

When are people going to wake up and realize that WE DON'T FUCKING MATTER to those in power anymore. Not one tiny bit.

This why DU and other site like it are important. If it wasn't for Democratic Underground I wouldn't have know about the vote.

but the President also refers to the republicans in congress as "we", actually taking the blame upon himself in a strange desire to appear bipartisan. When the "opposition" party does not call out the republicans, the corporate media is not going to either.

I went to the New York Times website, and the only thing they had about the failure of the unemployment bill was this graph:

http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/senate/2/23

When you go to the chart is that the majority of the Senate actually voted for the bill 58, but it still failed because it failed to reach 60 votes. This clearly shows that our democracy is broken.

Why did Harry Reid vote the Republican Party Line on this?

Reid voted yes initially, but change it to a no vote, when the bill didn't get 60 votes. He voted no in order to be able to bring up the bill again.

and a free market press is not journalism at all. Journalism is dead.

BUT something even more horrible happened, the M$M one day woke up and realized it did not need PEOPLE. Sure it needs sponsors, but PEOPLE are just sound bites and human capital. They tried an experiment to see if they could get away with only reporting the news corporations and politicians liked...and Lo...it came to pass that reality is now only what the M$M says it is. What their paymasters say it will be.

Corporate Propaganda Media. Not that much different than Government Propaganda Media.