Media’s take on poverty issues exposes the dishonesty of the press

Hotair ^ | 08/01/2014 | Noah Rothman

[SeekAndFind]

There is perhaps nothing which so perfectly exposes the partisan instincts of the political press as do our various National Conversations on poverty issues. When poverty again becomes a major focus of the media, as it often does when Republicans are on the political ascendancy, the intentions of Democrats are almost always framed as pure and decent. Republicans, meanwhile, are morally bankrupt, indecent, and self-serving – often simply for refusing to throw money at the problem at hand.

Does that characterization sound a little unforgiving of the press? It should, and they have earned it. The most recent example of this noxious impulse was displayed this week in the political media’s coverage of two seemingly unrelated stories.

The first is the journalistic establishment’s take on a collective Democratic push to convince the public that the federal minimum wage is so low that forcing anyone to live on it essentially constitutes a human rights violation.

“Have you ever seen a congressman snacking on a measly tin of sardines?” an ABC News report published on Tuesday asked. “Or maybe a governor ordering a McChicken off the dollar menu?”

Gasp! The gross indignity of living on a budget which “doesn’t allow for luxuries.”

“I basically had a couple bags of peanuts in the cloakroom–and there was a little fruit in the office that I ate yesterday,” a tormented Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) told ABC.

[Vaduz]

Nothing from the MSM can be trusted socialists the lot of them.

[Dilbert San Diego]

A key example is the issue of homelessness. The media focus on this issue when a Republican is president, and focus on how the policies of the Republican president have caused these people to be homeless.

When a Democrat is president, the media do not cover the subject of homelessness at all.

[Dick Bachert]

“When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman, and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people, then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not heed the warning and the sword comes and takes their life, their blood will be on their own head.”  Ezekiel 33
If you choose to take the time to watch the important 45 minute Trevor Loudon video at the link  below — and I sincerely hope you will — that sound in the background would be that of a trumpet.  Most of you will either not watch this or, if you do, you’ll be overwhelmed and reject the information and mutter “But what can I do?”

To which I respond: “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” - Edward Everett Hale

ALL of us need to do what we can.  Failing that, we are living in the last days of the Constitutional Republic the Founders struggled mightily to TRY to LEAVE US!  Don’t your progeny deserve better??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGYHJ0wtavc

[Fraxinus]

I was among those prematurely asking in 2012, would Romney even be inaugurated before the press finds homelessness to be a big problem?

[kearnyirish2]

Same with jobs; when Bush II was in office, we had “McJobs” (even with the much lower real unemployment than we have today).

With the token foreign Muslim, the media pretends there is nothing wrong with an unemployment rate of 20%. Not only do they hide it, they don’t acknowledge how many of the jobs out there today really are McJobs...