Brief suggestions for the shrewd observer. by Dan Alba
(libertarian)
Friday, December 18, 2009
Example: They reward institutionalized theft.
The editors at Time have given their Person of the Year award to the man running the engine of American economic ruin, heralding:
"The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. Thank the man who runs the Federal Reserve, our mild-mannered economic overlord."*
Are they saying he’s culpable, or calling him a savior?
Here’s a hint, courtesy of a State-approved biographer:
"Professor Bernanke of Princeton was a leading scholar of the Great Depression. He knew how the passive Fed of the 1930s helped create the calamity — through its stubborn refusal to expand the money supply and its tragic lack of imagination and experimentation."*
Oh! Sorry. I’m wrong. It was not a State-approved biographer. It was just a news organization giving tough love to "our" economic savior’s forefathers. State biographers are the ones who reward the predator State with worshipful reality-inversion. Hey! Wait a minute!
* Excerpts from "Person of the Year 2009″ by Michael Grunwald, Time.com, 12/16/9.
Example: They tell their readers that having your life controlled by federal fiat is no big deal so long as it’s well-intended.
For example, the last paragraph of a 25-paragraph report on an "historic" health-care bill:
"Most Americans would be required to carry insurance for the first time, and face penalties if they refused. At the same time, the bill includes hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to help defray the cost of coverage for lower and middle income families." 1
It hurts so good, apparently.
News editors use a composing template called the inverted pyramid, wherein the last few items in a news report are considered negligible.
This can tell you a lot about a news outlet and its editors.
1. Excerpt from "Senate blocks tough abortion limits in health bill," The Associated Press, 12/8/9. Emphasis mine.
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