Republicans have gone home to face angry voters, unhappy with the Ryan budget, and wanting to keep the safety net that Republicans are trying to obliterate. I have seen a couple op-ed opinion pieces in major papers, but this article is the first mention I have seen in the news portion of the papers, and even there, it’s a veiled reference to it. This was not so when Republicans astroturfed the Teabaggers over HCR. Meanwhile there is only one budget proposal that actually balances the budget, the People’s Budget from the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Where is OUR MSM coverage?
Anxiety is rising among some Republicans over the party’s embrace of a plan to overhaul Medicare, with GOP lawmakers already starting to face tough questions on the issue at town hall meetings back in their districts.
House leaders have scheduled a Tuesday conference call in which members are expected in part to discuss strategies for defending the vote they took this month on a budget that would transform the popular entitlement program as part of a plan to cut trillions in federal spending.
Democrats, eager to win back the seniors and independents who abandoned the party in last year’s midterm elections, have declared the vote a “moment of truth” and this week launched a media campaign accusing GOP House members of dismantling Medicare and endangering retirees.
The assault has taken some Republicans by surprise, prompting concerns that the party is ceding ground in a policy debate that GOP strategists already viewed as perilous.
Some Republicans fear a repeat of 2005, when President George W. Bush tried to turn the political capital of his reelection into a push to privatize Social Security. Republicans abandoned the effort after Democrats vigorously attacked them, accusing the GOP of trying to cut benefits.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll published this week found that two-thirds of Americans want Medicare to remain as is. That includes 62 percent of independents and nearly eight in 10 people 65 and older — making for an uphill climb for House Republicans trying to reassure constituents… [emphasis added]
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The Post parrots the Republican lie that the Ryan budget is a plan to cut spending. It is not. It is a plan to redistribute more wealth to the super rich and criminal corporations. In the first ten years it ADDS $6 trillion to the national debt, doing so at a record pace. But this Post articles say nothing of that. Nor do they mention that the People’s budget would eliminate the deficit in ten years. No MSM does, with one fortunate exception.
Rachel Maddow discusses the non-coverage introduces the Congressional Progressive Caucus proposed budget with columnist Mark Miller.
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Here’s a link to read the People’s Budget yourself.
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4 Responses to “Where Is OUR MSM Coverage?”
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Viacom, Disney, Time-Warner, CBS, ABC, Newscorp and GE/Comcast control all of the media. Just how much coverage of these Republicans being lambasted by their constituents do you expect to see? I am kind of surprised that for now NBC/MSNBC still has a fairly independent news department.
Mark, I agree, but given that the bandwidth that they use is public property, the public interest ought to have equal; weight with corporate interest.
I have been watching Keith Olbermann’s FOK website with interest, particularly in that his video presentations appear to be more frequent (in response to public comment?) than he originally indicated would be the case. I mention this because we have an opportunity -maybe for the last time ever- to actually shape the form a news/commentary outlet might take.
I note, for instance, that despite the political leanings of most news organizations, they all tend to cover the same Republican talking points. They might differ only upon which aspects are presented. Just where are those presenting alternatives to the corporatist cabal?
Please contact Keith Olbermann and ask him to be an outlet for something else. Ask him to show those who take other positions who deserve expanded coverage. Ask him to reveal the progressive activities which resonate with the voters. Ask him to be something very different from the existing mass media infotainment. Ask him to do as his hero Edward R. Murrow did and expose the monster for what it is – and to also show what it could be instead.
Realist, I have been watching Keith as well and look forward to June when he goes back on the air at Currant. Since he will have oversight of that nations news programming, I expect good things.