If you know anyone who still believes in a “liberal media,” here are 13 things everyone would know if there really were a “liberal media” (inspired by Jeff Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post):
1. Where the jobs went.
Outsourcing (or offshoring) is a bigger contributor to unemployment in the U.S. than laziness.
Since 2000, U.S. multinationals have cut 2.9 million jobs here while increasing employment overseas by 2.4 million. This is likely just the tip of the iceberg as multinational corporations account for only about 20 percent of the labor force.
When was the last time you saw a front-page headline about outsourcing?
2. Upward wealth redistribution and/or inequality.
In 2010, 20 percent of the people held approximately 88 percent of the net worth in the U.S. The top 1 percent alone held 35 percent of all net worth.
The bottom 80 percent of people held only 12 percent of net worth in 2010. In 1983, the bottom 80 percent held 18 percent of net worth.
These statistics are not Democrat or Republican. They are widely available to reporters.
Why aren’t they discussed in the “liberal” media?
3. ALEC.
If there were a corporate organization that drafted laws and then passed them on to state legislators to implement, wouldn’t you think the “liberal” media would report on them?
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is such an organization.
Need legislation drafted? No need to go through a lobbyist to reach state legislatures anymore. Just contact ALEC. Among other things, ALEC is responsible for:
Stand Your Ground laws
Voter ID laws
Right to Work laws
Privatizing schools
Health savings account bills, which benefit health care companies
Tobacco industry legislation
Many legislators don’t even change the proposals handed to them by this group of corporations. They simply take the corporate bills and bring them to the floor.
This is the primary reason for so much similar bad legislation in different states.
Hello … “liberal media” … over here!!!
FYI for those who still buy into republican misreadings vote for them again and see how really deep that abyss is. one other thing that seems to slip the thought media multi trillion dollar business world wide now what we do know is big business is generally tied to a right wing hitching post ad they ascribe to or should i say pay for politicians that will do the dirty work of deregulation and passing bills that favor them keeping the most and paying out the least and most egregious on the backs of workers they see as only worth the time they put in and it does not rise to the ranks of decent livable wages ahhh but those at the top who move the pawns around and enjoy the fruits of those who labor get millions and millions more if they quit. so in short big business is always going to support right wing agenda because it is theirs as dictated to the ones who carry their water and what better way to get it out there than media that follows your orders. NO LIBERAL MEDIA there are some that are more balanced but not liberal. as bad as the republicans have shown themselves in this cycle of debates who do you hear about the most in polls, news, and talk shows TV and radio??????????????
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