NBC Nightly News Engages in NEWS LAUNDERING : Jan: 24, 2006


It takes a shrewd news watcher to analyze, classify and name the subliminal messages and distortions contained in the evening news. Today's nightly news had two incidents which I classify as "NEWS LAUNDERING." It is something like money laundering. In news, what they do is report a problem, hide the main cause to protect their buddies and present a "decoy" to divert people's attention to a different less relevant cause.

The first one today was Ann Thompson's report on Ford Motor Company's decision to lay off thirty thousand people by 2008. She talked about the loss of market share for American car manufacturers because of foreign competition.

NBC ignored the "greed factor" - $42 per hour for a UAW worker turning a screw on the assembly line or the $3000 healthcare and pension cost in every American car- perhaps the greatest blow to the auto industry from United Auto Workers Union which has made Amrican cars too expensive. At the same, from a news report a few years ago, GM workers in a non-union Saturn plant did a better job at $28.00 and they were happy. The average American pay in the private sector, according to Census.gov is $17.05.

HOW CAN AN AMERICAN MAKING $17.05 AFFORD A FORD MADE BY A UAW WORKER DEMANDING $42.00? Shame on NBC for half-truth.

The second incident was Rehima Ellis' report on baby boomers "caught in between." She was reporting Americans at the prime of their working life having to take care of their parents while paying for college for their children. While Ellis quoted financial planners and "experts" on how to save and spend less, she protected the SOURCE for the biggest loss of income to all Americans - THE OBSCENE TAXATION BY FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. It is excessive taxes, more than anything else, killing Americans working in private sector.

When Americans cut the size of bureaucracy, here again spoilt by UNIONS, from 18 million to not more than 12 million and stop all government waste and duplication, every family will be able to pay for their needs.

Neither NBC, nor any other mainstream media criticises bureaucrats and government waste to the extent that they should. If one-tenth of one percent of the time they spend to quote and repeat who all said "Bush lied" they could educate Americans about our obese governments and how it steal a major chunk of our income. This is NEWS LAUNDERING!

The Blog Trotter/Blogger Gringo : MONDAY, JAN: 24, 2006 10,53 p.m. EST.