Attention, Attention, the MEDIA IS NOT LIBERAL and it’s also not conservative. It’s CORPORATE! (and we all know that a small minority of Americans own the lions share of corporations)
Here’s proof from the “liberal”…Boston Globe
Papa Gino’s could be minimum wage test case. Could Papa Gino’s be the tip of the iceberg lettuce when it comes to the state’s new minimum-wage rules?
Well, not really.
For one, the new minimum wage rules won’t be fully implemented for a few years and even then, while anyone working at PG’s for $11-$14 will see a pay raise, anyone working for $15-20 (or more) will probably see a pay CUT thanks to our Democratic Legislators and Republican Governor.
But, to the casual reader who just glances at the headline, well, golly, will my steak bomb or iced coffee drive up be a thing of the past because we’ll have to pay people $15 an hour? No.
So why is Papa Gino’s going under?
Gee, could it possibly be that the company’s private-equity owner, Bunker Hill Capital, had taken on tens of millions of dollars in debt. Wynnchurch Capital acquired most of that debt, and is the leading contender to take over ownership of Papa Gino’s, post-bankruptcy.
Well golly, that seems to be more likely to me. What about you?
So why is the headline all about the dangers of working class citizens trying to survive in our current winner take all economy and not the fact that vampire capitalism is the more likely problem? Maybe the owner of the Boston Globe can tell us?
SomervilleTom says
The Boston Globe has been a glorified Red Sox yearbook since its purchase by John Henry. Nobody who’s been paying attention would ever assert that today’s Boston Globe is “liberal”.
johntmay says
Yes, but nobody who’s been paying attention would have voted No on #1….and so on.
And that’s part of the problem.
SomervilleTom says
Well, sure.
I’m just saying that the complaints about “liberal media”, as invalid as they are, are aimed at outlets like CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.
This particular story is yet another example of why I’ve never regretted my decision to cancel my subscription to the Boston Globe.
johntmay says
I renewed my subscription to the Globe after 45 won the election and started his “enemy of the people” rants, deciding to help the newsprint media. I have not yet reached the point where I want to cancel it. but articles like this are pushing me towards that decision.
I still have “friends” who use the “Liberal Media” canard and I ask them, “what is liberal about it?” Their replies are limited to “the media loves Obama or hates Trump” …or mentions social issues like abortion and gay rights (especially gay rights) but never goes to economic issues.
I’ll ask them, when was the last time you saw labor portrayed in a positive way or labor unions celebrated? Why are union leaders called “Union Bosses” in the “liberal Media”? Why is their a “Business” section in the newspaper but not a “Labor” section?
SomervilleTom says
The mainstream media has been a slave to corporate interests for decades, especially broadcast media. The bias you describe is real and pervasive.
I stopped my hard-copy subscription to the Globe after receiving a paper where the full bottom half of the front page was occupied by an article discussing the dents in the Green Monster.
One excellent explanation of the pervasive corporate bias in our culture is “The Corporation, from 2003. If anything, the bias and corruption has worsened since then. Although lengthy (2 1/2 hours), the piece is riveting and devastatingly accurate.
joeltpatterson says
And not just the Boston Globe. The New York Times did a great job downplaying the fraud of Trump University in 2016 (and pushing the stupid EMAILZ headlines above the fold–Thanks, Comey.). Even today, in the NYT article about Stacey Abrams and Georgia, the NYT hides what Republicans in Georgia did:
This is the 3rd paragraph. The truth is that Republicans have used an unsecured paperless “ballot” system and systematically taken tens of thousands of African Americans off the rolls, violating their rights and rigging the election. The NYT article kinda almost mentions this way down in the article but only in a phrase as something Abrams charged (“She excoriated a system, overseen by Mr. Kemp and legions of local officials, that left voters lawfully purged from the rolls, waiting in the rain and facing rejections of their ballots for arbitrary reasons.”)
It is not merely a charge by a political candidate–this voter suppression is what Republicans did and it fixed the election results, cheating democracy.
White supremacy and conservatives get plenty of help from the New York Times.
I highly recommend you read (and listen) to Reveal News, a journal with the NYT & Globe’s biases.
SomervilleTom says
Pretty much all the media hand-wringing about the Trumpists ends up written in a similar way.
The mainstream media, like too many of us here at BMG, are unwilling to name the racist bigots in America what they are. The media avoid reporting explicitly what happens, and similarly avoid reporting the deplorable support for such reprehensible acts from the racist and bigoted constituency of thugs like Mr. Kemp.
It is no accident that the resulting bias results in continuing advertising revenue from the same corporate players that pander to and benefit from this racism. It is also no accident that so much airtime is dedicated to promoting the false premise that racism is a thing of the past in Georgia.
It is not.
Christopher says
The Right has done an effective job working the refs. The media just “have to” report something negative about Dems in order to be “fair” and not present a “liberal bias”.