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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