Memo to Mr. and Mrs. Media: No matter how many times you report that the American middle class is getting "squeezed," you're just flat-out wrong.This past Sunday's Parade magazine featured the latest attempt by the mainstream media to deny the self-evident truth that the American economy right now is booming.
American Dreaming
Amaerican Spectator ^ | 26Apr06 | Quin HillyerPosted on 04/26/2006 7:23:11 AM EDT by rellimpank
the rest of the time they cover Duke University and the Gay agenda.
. . . Another very uncurious habit of our main stream media.
For this we have the First Amendment?!
Yes, that's exactly why we have a First Amendment - to assure that we-the-people have the right to spend money promoting our political opinions (whether or not we call them "objective facts").Compare with the historical sponsorship of competing newspapers by Jefferson and Hamilton in the founding era.
Only difference is, now we have government-licensed broadcast journalism to help promote the fatuous conceit that the artificial reality within the pages of a news report matters more than the actual reality outside of those pages. Which works up to a point - and then our own "Baghdad Bobs" may find reality can't be talked away when reality is military control of your own location by people who "don't exist" or "have to respect the Constitution."