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Talking Points

(may change with current news stories)

“The Soft Truth” – What the Media tells the Public and How the Real News is Distorted

• How the mainstream media allocates resources to distort what the public needs to know. Example: The “Kidnapped Girl” story vs. “The Fed Secrets” story. “Kidnapped Girl” is about a young woman who escaped after being kidnapped and held against her will for 18 years.  The other, “The Fed Secrets,” is about the Federal Reserve losing a court decision that will force it to say who it gave trillions of dollars to during the financial meltdown.

• Media covers superficial stories at the expense of stories that will affect the general public. Example:  “Skydiving with the President (41)” and   “Deadly Radioactive Depleted Uranium Munitions.”  Both stories were on CNN at about the same time.  Can you guess which one I did?  The bosses loved the totally superficial one!  Why?  Because they think that is good for business.

• Mainstream media never sees what is coming on the economy’s horizon. It’s because they are taught to cover everything like an event-you know, like a ball game or a flood or a fire.  But, that is not the way the financial economy works.  Journalists can distort the picture by who they choose to talk to as an “expert.

• Pandering to advertisers.  Management thinks it is good for business. It happens more than you think.  I saw it happen in subtle ways all the time.  Journalists think they have to cheerlead the economy and, here again, it gives consumers a distorted picture.  When the financial crisis finally happened, most journalists claimed “nobody saw it coming.”  So totally not true.  Anyone with an I.Q. of 70 could see it coming from a mile away if they just looked at the evidence.

• Therefore, you get MOPE:  Management of Perception Economics. Some journalists feel it is not their job to ask tough questions.  They take the government positions and put them right on the air.  Look at the “Green Shoots” phenomenon.  Where did that phrase come from?  A phrase created to make people feel things are not so bad.  Again, not lies–but distortion.  I was asked once by a famous anchor if I ever worried about causing a “panic” in the markets from my stories.  What I was reporting was totally correct and backed up by facts, but I was still being pressured to put a “good” spin on things.

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