This morning on my way to class I was listening to a discussion on NPR about the controversy over Barack Obama calling Midwesterners “bitter”. of course they are bitter- so am I! the economy is falling apart and thousands of people are losing their homes. Just drive along any neighborhood and look for the dead lawns… its very sad.
Getting back to my thought…What I really wanted to talk about is how all this coverage over what Obama said is unusually fishy. The NPR host said that “polls” (I don’t know which ones- nothing new) show that the American public is not phased over what Obama said yet the press is treating it like the white water scandal. Is the media trying to manipulate us? Sure looks like it. Kinda makes you think about what we covered in class today… Are the big media conglomerates threatened by Obama? Hmmmm…
Getting back to my thought…What I really wanted to talk about is how all this coverage over what Obama said is unusually fishy. The NPR host said that “polls” (I don’t know which ones- nothing new) show that the American public is not phased over what Obama said yet the press is treating it like the white water scandal. Is the media trying to manipulate us? Sure looks like it. Kinda makes you think about what we covered in class today… Are the big media conglomerates threatened by Obama? Hmmmm…
2 comments:
Yeah, I agree about the economy. It's horrible. At my job, the company I work for has been asking us to make budget cuts all around from payroll, to supplies, to just about everything you can think of. Also I have employees who have been coming to me talking about how they won't be able to make it to work because their house got foreclosed and they have nowhere to live...It's so sad to see this happening all around us. I never thought the economy was going to be this bad, even after 9/11. I think that if Obama is elected, there will be major changes to a lot of things, including the media... I guess we'll see, right?
Yeah I agree too, this is a huge problem, and it seems to be getting out of control. Home foreclosure is such an issue. I can only hope that the President elected changes these issues, and yes to get the public interested and thinking (even angry) the media may play on it. But then, the bias is questioned. I guess we will have to see what the changes do.
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