Comments on: My Favorite Funny Man May Be Onto Something http://caldems.com/2009/10/13/my-favorite-funny-man-may-be-onto-something/ The official online presence of the Cal Berkeley Democrats. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:00:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Pegah http://caldems.com/2009/10/13/my-favorite-funny-man-may-be-onto-something/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Pegah Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:40:21 +0000 http://calberkeleydemocrats.com/?p=685#comment-114 Yeah, absolutely. Mass media dedicates a majority of its recession coverage to the market as a whole, property values, and corporate situations. I would actually love to see a special that really goes into the streets, literally or so-to-speak to document the effects of this recession on Main Street. This recession hurts the micro level and the here-and-now far more detrimentally than the system at large or projected complications. I'm sorry to see that the NYT was quick to criticize the German solution before evaluating the lack of real amendments back home. Yeah, absolutely. Mass media dedicates a majority of its recession coverage to the market as a whole, property values, and corporate situations. I would actually love to see a special that really goes into the streets, literally or so-to-speak to document the effects of this recession on Main Street. This recession hurts the micro level and the here-and-now far more detrimentally than the system at large or projected complications. I’m sorry to see that the NYT was quick to criticize the German solution before evaluating the lack of real amendments back home.

]]> By: Robbie http://caldems.com/2009/10/13/my-favorite-funny-man-may-be-onto-something/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Robbie Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:31:51 +0000 http://calberkeleydemocrats.com/?p=685#comment-111 If you look at any of the research that's been done on how the national media has covered the Great Recession so far, it's really quite astonishing how little has been focused on what's happening to ordinary people all across America. There's been an enormous amount of focus on Wall Street and Washington, but very little about the reality of double digit unemployment/underemployment. In fact, the NYT recently ran an article ridiculing Germany's response to unemployment, which has been vastly superior to ours. Their unemployment rate is actually lower now than it was in 2007. Of course, if you earn what a newspaper editor or TV news reporter earns, you have been largely shielded from the most pernicious effects of what's happened. Being biased towards covering the stock market and surrounding issues makes sense if that's the only thing that's really gone wrong in your life since the recession began. If you look at any of the research that’s been done on how the national media has covered the Great Recession so far, it’s really quite astonishing how little has been focused on what’s happening to ordinary people all across America. There’s been an enormous amount of focus on Wall Street and Washington, but very little about the reality of double digit unemployment/underemployment. In fact, the NYT recently ran an article ridiculing Germany’s response to unemployment, which has been vastly superior to ours. Their unemployment rate is actually lower now than it was in 2007.

Of course, if you earn what a newspaper editor or TV news reporter earns, you have been largely shielded from the most pernicious effects of what’s happened. Being biased towards covering the stock market and surrounding issues makes sense if that’s the only thing that’s really gone wrong in your life since the recession began.

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