A Question I would like to ask Corporate Media (I would like to hear them answer it too)

[Bill USA]

Over the many months since the initial crash (the Credit Collapse) of the Trickle Down - Deregulation Disaster , I must have heard M$M ask President Obama about ten thousand times, "Why can't you fix the economy? What's wrong with the economy?". But I never hear them ask the Republicans why they have filibustered (by threat or by amendment) every stimulus bill proposed by the Administration or if extorting a 40% reduction in the size of the initial stimulus bill (changing spending to give people jobs, for some who may not have any, into tax cuts) has helped the economy much.

We hear the M$M types asking Obama questions. I think we need a continuing article (either here on DU or maybe on HuffPo) which asks its readers: "What would you like to ask M$M, assuming they would bother to answer?". People could post their most urgent question they would like to have answered. Readers could vote on the suggested questions and the site could post periodic updates showing the winning questions. (Note, when posing your question, it would be good to preface it with the question you hear M$M types always asking only Obama or the Democrats - as if they are the only people who can affect public policy). I think with such a continuing article asking this question of readers, and showing the most voted for questions, this would put these questions before the public. It would give them more visibility.

IF this article or feature started to get some following, then every time the M$M asked Obama or a Democrat one of their pet 'GOP - talking point' questions, then that might 'ring a bell' or call to mind the question that somebody proposed that M$M should answer. The article could end with "Come on Brian, Diane, Jim Lehrer (etc) give the public a break. They'd like to hear your answer. Don't you think they deserve one?"


... NOW as to my question, it would be:

"M$M types, you ask the President about the economy a lot. But why don't you ever ask the GOP policiticians why they stress they will cut "jobs killing regulations" and 'cut taxes' when these are the very same policies that caused the Trickle Down-Deregulation Disaster we are still trying to dig out of? The Republicans passed tax cuts, by reconciliation, (weighted, in GOP fashion, heavily to the most wealthy) and Deregulated Wall Street (http://motherjones.com/politics/2008/05/foreclosure-phil">Commodities Futures Modernization Act) and the home mortgage industry (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783.html">Predatory Lenders Partner in Crime - Eliot Spitzer) and yet http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/">the Bush administration had the worst jobs creation record - on record, and the worst Economic output growth inhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101196.html"> seventy years? So why do you Republicans think MORE tax cuts (weighted mostly for those who least need them) and defacto Deregulation (massive cuts to Government programs will seriously impact regulatory effectiveness of many agencies) will produce anything different than it did before - the greatest economic disaster this country has seen since the (last) Great Depression?...Huh?"


... that's what I would like to ask the M$M (GOP talking points) parrots.

[Recoverin_Republican]

1. I like your idea, and your question.

. sounds like a very good idea. voting on questions people would most like the M$M types to answer. Nobody ever gets to ask the talking heads questions. THey should have to answer some questions too. Generate some attention for those questions. Yes, I'll vote for that!



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[FrenchieCat]

2. Yep...because currently, no one is holding the media accountable,

so they do whatever they feel like it!

[JohnWxy]

3. great idea! If this "My question for the Media" acquired a following it would give visibility to

the idea..the idea that the media should have to answer questions too. (YOu should send this to the people at Huffington POst.)

Very good question too. I'd vote for it!

Would have recommended but was too late.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. The Corporate OWNED Media is being paid to NOT understand the obvious:

and to push America-killing GOP propoganda. They are IN on drowning the Country in a bathtub. And if you ever did get any kind of response from the Corporate OWNED Media, it'd virtually be certain to be a bald faced LIE!

[deadinsider]

5. Ask the corporate media why corporate america...

I like your post, I just find it ironic that you wish the 'corporate' media will answer any questions that may reveal the 'corporate' agenda.

The M$M is there to create narratives supporting supply-side economics, neo-liberalism, etc.

Just look at Time magazines 100 greatest non-fictional books. Milton Friedman? Seriously?