- b.c.,
This blog from the Huffington Post on the GOP's latest hate crime:
Writing a Neutral Story About Something So Heartless As the Food Stamp Vote Is Not Good Journalism | Dan Froomkin
excerpt:
"I decided to closely examine this morning's coverage of the vote because such a blatantly absurd and cruel move struck me as a good test of whether the Washington press corps could ever bring itself to call things as they so obviously are -- or whether they would check their very good brains at the door and just write triangulating mush that leaves readers to fend for themselves. It was no contest.
And as it happens, the Times editorial board actually understated things. Yesterday's vote was not only an undeniable act of heartlessness, it was also perhaps the ultimate example of how today's increasingly radical and unhinged GOP leadership picks on the poor, coddles the rich, makes thinly veiled appeals to racism, and plays time-wasting political games instead of governing."
From NBC Nightly News:
ONE IN SEVEN AMERICANS RELY ON FOOD STAMPS:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3032619/ns/NBCNightlyNews/#53056370
46.5 MILLION AMERICANS IN POVERTY, ONE IN FIVE ARE CHILDREN:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3032619/ns/NBCNightlyNews/#53036910
Writing a Neutral Story About Something So Heartless As the Food Stamp Vote Is Not Good Journalism | Dan Froomkin
excerpt:
"I decided to closely examine this morning's coverage of the vote because such a blatantly absurd and cruel move struck me as a good test of whether the Washington press corps could ever bring itself to call things as they so obviously are -- or whether they would check their very good brains at the door and just write triangulating mush that leaves readers to fend for themselves. It was no contest.
And as it happens, the Times editorial board actually understated things. Yesterday's vote was not only an undeniable act of heartlessness, it was also perhaps the ultimate example of how today's increasingly radical and unhinged GOP leadership picks on the poor, coddles the rich, makes thinly veiled appeals to racism, and plays time-wasting political games instead of governing."
From NBC Nightly News:
ONE IN SEVEN AMERICANS RELY ON FOOD STAMPS:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3032619/ns/NBCNightlyNews/#53056370
46.5 MILLION AMERICANS IN POVERTY, ONE IN FIVE ARE CHILDREN:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3032619/ns/NBCNightlyNews/#53036910
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