Getting it wrong is a problem. Not caring about getting it wrong is the BIGGEST problem.
t-bone
· 8 months ago
Getting it wrong is a BIG problem. Not caring about getting it wrong is a BIGGER problem. Lying about it is the BIGGEST problem.
An_American_Karol
· 8 months ago
I read a blog yesterday where a rather stupid conservative bemoaned if she still had her million dollar company, the one she lost in a divorce back in the late nighties, she would sell it rather than "put up" with the tax increase. I had to remind her if she lost the company in the 90s, she never had the Bush tax breaks to begin with and had been paying the same taxes she would be paying under Obama's plan. She didn't see she had been paying higher taxes and still had a profitable company. Too much Limbaugh and not enough sense.
Gorgonzola
· 8 months ago
It demonstrates that ABC and its parent company are desperate to tell any story that bashes the new administratiion over the head. Remember the debate when Charles Gibson and George Steponyourdogpoo Bashed Barak Obama for not wearing a flag pin?
HereinDC
· 8 months ago
It's like a whole new cottage Industry that has sprung up
Companies/websites that find all the bunk being spewed by Obama haters.
kevinbgoode
· 8 months ago
The question here is why ABC News even assigned such a bogus story to any reporter. . .that would be followed up by the question of how a major national news organization has managed to erode its credibility by essentially reneging on every professional ethic in the field (ala CNN and Faux)....and then followed up by the question to the editors about their motivation for running such a story.
It is bad enough that the media has - apparently upon direction of right wing ideologues - managed to "balance" itself into some parallel universe of illusions about the world around us, rendering it incapable of maintaining any level of credibility beyond providing recipes on the morning show.
ferd
· 8 months ago
Dishonest media could kill the stimulus. What to do?
Steve_in_CNJ
· 8 months ago
i was in kindergarten when they taught me how to admit a mistake and apologize. i must have missed the part where you say "my behavior was not comprehensive enough".
cole3244
· 8 months ago
the first thing abc and other supposed news entities should do is hire professional reporters and try to report the news and not carry the rw water for them in the way they have done during the bush years. there will be plenty of time and opportunities to attack obama without making up details by the media in their attempt to push the con agenda rather then inform the readers of the actual facts concerning any particular subject. a democracy needs a free press to exist and right now we have a press that is free but partisan in its views and reporting.
AngelaChanning
· 8 months ago
Ummm, if someone wants to lower their taxable income level, they should increase their 401k or , SEP, IRA contribution if they are not already maxed out. In theory, one pays less taxes but they are also saving more. Stupid stupid stupid people. Thank you for listening.
Older_Wiser
· 8 months ago
Those people truly are stupid, because the tax cuts will affect peoples' TAXABLE income not their GROSS income.
lilybart
· 8 months ago
Investors Business Daily repeated this tax lie in the lead editorial yesterday. This is a right wing rag, but one would think that a business publication would understand the tax rules.
but then, lying always works for them
TomJoad
· 8 months ago
I don't know if it is mendacity or just plain incompetence.
The media today doesn't do the absolute minimum requirements from yesteryear about fact-checking, research, it all seems to a lost art nowdays as papers cut those for more profit (it costs money to check facts).
Just look at a handful of stories with a critical eye, and see if you don't find one in 4 or so that don't even do the basic reporting (who, what, when, where eithing the first few paragraphs).
Though people getting news interviews who claim Obama is the anti-christ, or Hitler reincarnated get press time, tv time...one could make an easier case for Bush for both of those tags, and yet you never heard anyone in prime-time or newspapers getting that taken semi-seriously.
kh7463
· 8 months ago
I know exactly what you mean. My boss mentors students in their news reporting classes about fact checking and they often ask why they don't see that in articles they read.
LawMichigander
· 8 months ago
I could care less what people who make 250,000$ a year feel, Argentina is not crying for them.
CharlieL
· 8 months ago
And the fact that ABS is a corporate-controlled and corporate-biased anti-people network suprises who exactly?
Dr. C
· 8 months ago
Was this a Charlie Gibson story? We know he's worried about all those teachers and cops making over 250k per year . . .
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I had to remind her if she lost the company in the 90s, she never had the Bush tax breaks to begin with and had been paying the same taxes she would be paying under Obama's plan.
She didn't see she had been paying higher taxes and still had a profitable company. Too much Limbaugh and not enough sense.
Companies/websites that find all the bunk being spewed by Obama haters.
It is bad enough that the media has - apparently upon direction of right wing ideologues - managed to "balance" itself into some parallel universe of illusions about the world around us, rendering it incapable of maintaining any level of credibility beyond providing recipes on the morning show.
but then, lying always works for them
The media today doesn't do the absolute minimum requirements from yesteryear about fact-checking, research, it all seems to a lost art nowdays as papers cut those for more profit (it costs money to check facts).
Just look at a handful of stories with a critical eye, and see if you don't find one in 4 or so that don't even do the basic reporting (who, what, when, where eithing the first few paragraphs).
Though people getting news interviews who claim Obama is the anti-christ, or Hitler reincarnated get press time, tv time...one could make an easier case for Bush for both of those tags, and yet you never heard anyone in prime-time or newspapers getting that taken semi-seriously.