CNN (Corporate Noise & Nonsense)! - God “It’s true that a recent CNN poll found that voters are scared and angry -- when they are asked by pollsters how scared and angry they are. That poll, incidentally, didnt ask what issues matter most to voters. All of this feeds right into the GOP electoral strategy of using fear-based appeals to sway voters. With four weeks to go before the midterm elections, Republicans have made questions of how safe we are -- from disease, terrorism or something unspoken and perhaps more ominous -- central in their attacks against Democrats, The New York Times reported in October. Since that time, CNN discussed the minimum wage on 35 broadcasts and mentioned unemployment or economic growth during 52 broadcasts, according to a Nexis search. Ebola appears in 565 news transcripts during that time. Even factoring in CNNs international broadcasting, it would hard to find an hour of news programming that didnt feed into Ebola panic in the past 4 weeks. And its not just CNN. Throughout the closing weeks of the election, news media have gone into overdrive helping Republican sow the seeds of Ebola panic. Voters, meanwhile, are 11 times more likely to say that jobs and the economy are one of the most important issues heading into the economy than they are to cite Ebola. Nevertheless, Borger was congratulated by her CNN colleagues for forcing Biden off a discussion of issues like raising the minimum wage” ..mediamatters.org/blog/2014/11/03/how-the-media-helped-the-gop-sell-their-fear-ba/201423
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:24:31 +0000
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