From: howdHol@yaooho.com   
      
   Boron Elgar  wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 18:29:50 -0000 (UTC), Howard    
      
   >>And it's really sad how dumb a lot of the big national reporters who   
   >>drive the local coverage are about this stuff. There are plenty of   
   >>experts who will talk to major outlets and provide a meaningful   
   >>counternarrative about food prices, or caution about gas prices, but   
   >>their coverage leans ridiculously heavily toward industry group   
   >>flacks.   
   >   
   > This is why I used the ABC/Martha Radditz article as an example that   
   > is becoming more common rather than odd stand-out.. ABC is a high end   
   > news outlet and Radditz is a high end reporter. It was as if there   
   > were no editing or logic applied to any of it.   
   >   
   > I think the lack of editorial output is part of it. Assigning these   
   > angles and then making no effort to use nothing other than wildly   
   > stated, anecdotal nonsense with no effort to verify or even try to   
   > make sense of what makes it into a piece.   
      
   They've outsourced even more of their analytical ability to a very tight   
   circle of supposed experts, and where there used to be more people with   
   perspective in news organizations, it's gotten really atrophied.   
      
   The deal with a lot of the drumbeat on inflation is basically panic   
   about declining unemployment and the potential for a stronger safety net   
   among the Larry Summers types who are well plugged into the news   
   industry.   
      
   I think they're savvy enough to know that attacking greater worker   
   autonomy directly is a loser politically, so they're trying to gin up   
   fears about inflation first, and then attack the social net and push for   
   monetary policies to worsen unemployment after a dumb consensus that   
   "something" needs to be done about inflation.   
      
   I think they see things like a minor uptick in unions, expanded   
   unemployment benefits and the possibility of childcare assistance, and   
   they're freaking that employees might possibly look for new jobs, ask   
   for raises, and other normal things that used to exist before the great   
   squeeze started taking hold in the 90s.   
      
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