Posted on 09/17/2008 9:59:52 AM PDT by SvenWaring
Media tell Americans: Well, you have to go broke someway.
Citing its mission to inform the public and to secure better ratings and higher single-copy sales, America's media is doing its part to reassure Americans that the demise of the economy is certain.
After an unprecedented sell-off on Wall Street that has happened numerous times before, the leaders of America's media establishment helped Americans with jarring headlines and spooky, omniscient pronouncements that the financial end is near.
Gerald DePepperdeu, assistant financial demise editor for the New York Times, said the mission of the media is to deepen a crisis by increasing editorialization and finding new adjectives to describe the coming apocalypse.
"The only thing we sell is fear itself," said DePepperdeau. "That's money in the bank, but don't put your money there because all the banks are going to fail."
(Excerpt) Read more at dotpenn.com ...
So the media is supposed to downplay the crisis?
Only after the Messiah is elected.
He’s the only one that can save us.
If it’s bad for America, it’s good for the dems.
No, but they don’t need to call for the end of Capitalism, either.
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