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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumEconomist Dean Baker "Washington Post Wild Swing at Sanders"
http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=b909c340c7&e=330a70f55aIts not surprising that the Washington Post (owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos) would be unhappy with a presidential candidate running on a platform of taking back the country from the millionaires and billionaires. Therefore the trashing of Sen. Bernie Sanders in an editorial, Bernie Sanders Fiction-Filled Campaign (1/27/16), was about as predictable as the sun rising.
The whole article is well worth reading.
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Economist Dean Baker "Washington Post Wild Swing at Sanders" (Original Post)
Nanjeanne
Jan 2016
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m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)1. k & r
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)2. I didn't make the connection- The WaPo is owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos
Very interesting.
farleftlib
(2,125 posts)3. A swing and a miss
This is a deliberate hit piece by WaPo, however, I'm heartened that these screeds against Bernie don't seem to make a dent in his momentum. People seem to be aware that the pushback against him is just more of the same-old, same-old. Or maybe it's because alternative media and social media are getting the message out. Bernie's popularity with millenials probably has something to do with it as well.
Good article, thanks for posting.
bread_and_roses
(6,335 posts)4. On health care, taxes, wages - skewers WaPo
Others around the site have covered the health care pretty well but he also - importantly - notes
Fans of basic economics know that it matters hugely more to workers if their before-tax wages keep pace with productivity growth, implying wage gains of 15-20 percent over the course of a decade, than if their payroll taxes are increased by 1-2 percentage points. However the paper endlessly obsesses on the latter, while almost completely ignoring the former.
... The Post gets very upset when political figures like Bernie Sanders raise issues about before tax wage. Instead, it wants workers to fixate on the possibility that they may at some point face a tax increase.
... The Post gets very upset when political figures like Bernie Sanders raise issues about before tax wage. Instead, it wants workers to fixate on the possibility that they may at some point face a tax increase.