Beat the Press blog to media “ur doin it wrong”
Find a person who is intelligent, on a mission, and cranky, and you’ve found someone interesting to watch. Dean Baker churns out three or four comments a day on his blog Beat the Press about the ever-sickening state of the US economy and the Media that “report” on it. I don’t spend any time reading the New Your Times or Washington Post, but I do listen to a fair bit of NPR on my daily commute. Reading this blog has heightened my awareness of what’s missing from NPR’s economic reporting. Here are some good posts from the past year.
Tell the Post: President Bush Is Not a Political Philosopher – “Talk about putting lipstick on a pig”
WSJ Turns to Surprised Economists to Talk About the Impact of Fannie/Freddie Bailout on Deficit
Fannie Mae Proves Economists Wrong: Skills Do Not Explain Income Inequality – “Daniel Mudd, the CEO of Fannie Mae, has earned tens of millions of dollars in this position over the last three years. In exchange for this extraordinary compensation, more than 1000 times what a minimum wage earner pulls down, Mr. Mudd pushed Fannie in bankruptcy. How many minimum wage earners could do that?”
Bill Gates Secret to Success: Cheating
President Bush Threatens to Make Rivers Run Upstream, Press Reports – “When the President or any prominent politician makes an absurd statement, the media have an obligation to all public attention to it. Is the person either completely uninformed about the topic or are they just lying to advance their agenda.”
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