{"id":10622,"date":"2013-07-12T00:49:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T07:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10622"},"modified":"2013-07-12T00:49:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T07:49:04","slug":"8000-words-on-media-and-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/12\/8000-words-on-media-and-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"8,000 Words on Media and the Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words.  If so, I get to save a whole bunch of writing today, because I have a series of charts for you by Media Matters<\/a> about how television covered the economy in the second quarter of 2013, both in general and by network.<\/font><\/p>\n

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From my own analysis of these charts, it seems clear that TV coverage of the economy is woefully inadequate, long on ideology, and short on fact.  Overall, it is skewed severely right, reflecting the networks\u2019 own 1% corporate agendas.  It indicates that one network, MSNBC, stands head and shoulders above the rest, despite having the need for much improvement.  It also indicates that one network, The Republican Ministry of Propaganda, aka Faux Noise<\/em>, is so far below the rest, that it comes as no surprise that Fox viewers are not as well informed as people who watch no broadcast news at all.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words.  If so, I get to save a whole bunch of writing today, because I have a series of charts for you by Media Matters about how television covered the economy in the second quarter of 2013, both in general and by network. I suggest you […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}