Slime journalism

These crepe hangers daily validate my contention that the major media is a destructive force in America by putting the worst possible face on economic problems, and shouting phrases like wall street panic and financial crisis, when, in truth, they themselves are causing whatever panic the public feels. The media writers side-step good news for the worst possible slant on any situation. They magnify every bad situation, turn small problems into big ones and big ones into catastrophes. Now, predictably, the media is aiming its guns at President Bush and the Republicans for the economic problems, particularly shrill in exaggerating bad news with election looming. Today, a local paper carried a front page Associated Press article, titled “Financial meltdown,” and with phrases like “market collapse,” that made one want to stock up on canned goods, bolt the doors, and hunker down until the financial storm had blown itself out. This A.P. writer, like many who write for them, is a sad excuse for a journalist; he obviously scoured the Internet until he found a suitably alarmist blog to quote on the economy as follows: “We are in the middle of a deep dark recession, heading for a depression and it won’t end soon. Here it is and it is nasty.” Even a pseudo-journalist and a pseudo-economist, with a scintilla of ethical standards, knows better than this. Or maybe they don’t know better, which is even worse. We are not yet in a recession by the accepted definition of the term. Shame on Associated Press for trying to cause panic with the public, a majority of which invests in the stock market either privately or in their 401s. Final note: if the Democrats regain the Presidency and retain control of Congress, they will most certainly enact the joke-named “Fairness Doctrine,” that will muzzle talk radio – the only counterweight to the trash-talk, and the A.P. and the other liberal-biased media will report lies like the above without anyone to challenge them.