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Tiger, Obama, Unemployment, Oh My!
The Copenhagen climate talks, Obama's Nobel peace prize, jobless numbers, a proposed compromise in the Senate on health care reform, or Tiger Woods' sex life: which is the most-covered story this week?
You'd probably be right if you guessed Tiger Woods. We don't have statistics, but we do have a panel of journalists joining us in the studio to discuss the way the media did--and didn't--cover the biggest news of the day. Joseph Huff-Hannon, independent journalist and Nation contributor, Rana Foroohar, senior editor at Newsweek, and Lionel of Air America critique coverage of Copenhagen, Obama, health care, the economy, and yes, even Tiger.
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Do economists have to dumb down on TV? Do they even WANT to explain what is going on?
Most of them are paid consulting fees by the Fed, or else private donors and university trustees who specifically support Friedmanite efficient markets and monetarist economic because that means taxes are low and money is the most important factor of production. Why do you think it is that behavioural and complexity or alternative economists NEVER testify in Congress? Appear on the mainstream media, nor get seats even at PEN.org’s World Voices Festival (Krugman is the token).
Here’s some evidence about this corrupt and complicit economics profession.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/07/priceless-how-the-federal_n_278805.html
Can the mainstream corporate media explain anything about finance when their masters want the people in the dark!
By AlbyFlugzeug on December 11th, 2009 at 11:38 am