Why California Undocumented Youth and I Interrupted Nancy Pelosis DREAM Act Press Conference

[JCanete]

112. It is not that I dismiss it entirely, it is that when they come out and say what I expect them to

say for all the other reasons I stated, and when I find that the writer's own perspective has absolutely caused a framing of information in a way that propagates certain assumptions without even bothering to address potential challenges to those assumptions, I do not hold that piece high as an example of intrepid journalism getting to the bottom of things. This is just not a strength of mainstream papers and their staff when it comes to progressive economic issues. I certainly don't want to suggest there are no exceptions, but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

You could argue that its all benign, and that the editors are catering to a larger audience and the paper is looking for voices that speak to enough of that audience, but I think that's a cop-out. They are at least partly responsible for how their audience thinks about things, and when they have a financial incentive to come down a certain way on something, and papers do, when that's where they come down it doesn't mean they aren't right on that particular issue in that particular case, it just means that I question the forces that helped them to arrive at their conclusions.

The Boston Globe implying medicare-for-all isn't coming because Vermont couldn't pass it already buys into the notion that politics is just a matter of ideology and even those liberals who believe in it balked when it came down to it, presumably not because of the political backlash that money might buy, but because of the plan's costliness.

The information in the article is valuable, its just all incredibly one-sided. Where is the counter-argument?
Absolutely there are risks to a small state doing this. If corporations have leverage they can use like threatening to leave the state for another one, that obviously is a risk that Vermont takes, and one that California takes as well, but to a much lesser extent.