NEWS
Why America’s News Outlets Are Worthless
The media doesn’t cover inequality, poverty, or hardly anything in the public interest
According to the news outlet, EXTRA (the media watch group newsletter of FAIR), America’s corporate media outlets — newspapers and cable news — barely cover “income inequality” or “inequality” in their news coverage.
On the other hand, these outlets (especially the text based outlets) do report on the “debt ceiling,” “recession,” and “inflation.” EXTRA also reports that most Americans remain uninformed how egregious the issue of income inequality is today. This is, according to FAIR and EXTRA, due to slanted news outlets owned by corporate cash who hammer home fake problems at the expense of most people.
Inequality is not the #1 issue on the minds of Americans, due to this slanted coverage. The federal budget deficit is considered a huge problem (53 percent) according to FAIR while income inequality is not as big of an issue. This is despite the fact that CEOs earn 354 dollars for each dollar their workers earn, on average.
One would think that if these numbers do exist (and they do) more Americans would be concerned about income inequality. But with our 24–7 news cycle and half of it covering Trump like he is a movie star…
