Monday, October 6, 2014

Sting catches Soldiers but IGNORES the big Corporation thieves.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/05/1333837/-Today-Show-sets-up-sting-to-nab-soldiers-who-scam-thousands-ignores-corporations-who-scam-billions

Let's review. A highly profitable TV show that brings in hundreds of millions of dollars annually, "effectively subsidizing other news shows" broadcast by its network, targets individual criminals, each of whom is committing fraud that costs the government about a thousand dollars a month. That show—as well as the flagship nightly news show that it subsidizes—do not report on billions of dollars being lost by that same government because corporations are clever enough to exploit the tax code.
After watching the report, I was just stunned by how much trouble the Today Show went through to catch what really amounts to petty thievery—wrong though it undoubtedly is—while big corporations essentially steal money from our government by the truckload. TV news shows produce sexy, easy to understand stories like this one while ignoring the more complex, but more important stories about the real injustices in our economic system. And that's what's wrong with the mainstream, corporate-run media in a nutshell.

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