Corporate Media Ignoring Wisconsin & Other Protests Likely Fear Of Middle Class Revolt by Contagion
Posted: Tuesday, March 08, 2011
by Egberto Willies
http://egbertowillies.com
Whenever a few Tea Party members show up at any public event the media is always present. It never mattered that the tenets of the Tea Party contains mutually exclusive policy points. After-all, one cannot create a movement complaining about a duly elected government taking away ones freedom when they are in fact effecting policies they ran on.
What is not discussed often is that the governmental layoffs will continue an economic spiral downward as increased unemployment depresses these states’ economies even further as they collect even less tax revenues. Cuts of services in lieu of marginal tax increases for the wealthy that benefitted the most from the last economic boon and reaped taxpayer bailouts for the economic collapse they engendered is unpatriotic, wrong, and will materially damage families throughout our country for decades. Yet, these are the interests protected by the Tea Party. While the health and education outcomes may not be immediately evident, they will continue our slide to the bottom of industrialized countries.
Many branches of the Tea Party are supporting bills that provide invasive procedures on women attempting to deny them their rights to an abortion. Many Tea Party branches are promoting the denial of climate change which affects policies to mitigate it thus denying those who know better their freedom to prevent the world from going into climactic catastrophe. Tea Party members continuously support policies for removing regulations from corporations denying those who know better their freedom from corporate environmental catastrophes like the BP Oil Spill, “Love Canal”, “Cancer Alley” in Texas and many other states, food poisoning, and much more. The Tea Party wants to deny public employees their freedom to collectively bargain with their government employers. Who is taking your freedom away?
With many middle class protests occurring in different cities in Wisconsin, one would believe that the media would cover them continuously as they did the Tea Party. Especially since most of the rallies and protests are actually larger and diametrically opposed to the Tea Party point of view, one would expect that fairness and balance would be the order of the day. Somehow the Liberal mainstream media is not so Liberal after-all. When the protest was in favor of mostly corporate friendly policies, every outlet was happy to carry it. It did not matter that the movement was a bastion of misinformation, lies, misrepresentations, and hate.
Today’s movement is a real middle class movement of people protesting policies that will have immediate negative effect on their families, their schools, their jobs, and their health. Yet Charlie Sheen gets top billing on every newscast as there is little or no coverage of our fellow middle class brothers and sisters fighting to maintain a middle class life; struggling for the ability of attaining the elusive American dream. Corporate America cannot but fear this will become a contagion. It is the only plausible reason why real middle class rallies and protests get very little coverage by our corporate media. They’ve seen the Al-Jazeera effect in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, & Libya. Now will our middle class step up? After-all don’t we have more freedom?
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)I think Corporate America has gotten blinded, just as Mubarak et al did. The middle class will eventually step up, when the crisis becomes intolerable and they realize they have other options. On paper the western cultures have more freedom, but in reality? I'm not sure. We could be free if we wanted to, we just can't want to.
It's a crazy world out there. Thank you for this informative piece. Nicely done.
Absolutely! The American corporate media loves to dictate what news is "relevant" to the public, but what they don't tell us is that their "editorial" decisions are often based on self-serving interests, usually the bottom line. I'm glad you wrote this article.
In actual fact the Tea Party is the brain child of Barrack Obama. He roused up the whole America about the change that they can believe on. Sarah Palin having been there during the presidential elections took notice about what galvanizes the media, talk about novelty, talk about change. She noticed that is what worked for Obama and why could not it work for her. So up she went and developed this Movement, and it gathering media attention exactly the way Barack Obama's novelty talk about change we can believe in did. And notice, there was never any change implemented that we can believe in. Soldiers are still in Iraq and so on. The basis of the Tea Party you are rightly correct is nothing. Can not we say the same thing in the manner with "the change we can believe in" story?
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