How can we beat the Media? Every article about today's vote starts out with a lie

[Aramchek]

They all begin by saying the purpose of the vote was to kill tax cuts for the rich.
None of them even mention that this is what is legally bound to happen at the end of the year.

In fact, the Rich Bastard tax cuts aren't even mentioned in today's bill.
It was intended solely for extending tax cuts to those making less than 250,000.

It was a Middle Class Tax Cut Extension,
but instead they characterize it as an attack on the Rich.

How can we win when the enemy controls every TV and Newspaper in America???

[daleanime]

1. There are more of us....

and when most of us realize what's on the line, we'll start the fight. Right now too many people are allowing themselves to be fooled.:banghead:

[LawnLover]

2. I don't think that the message "kill tax cuts for the rich" is

one that the public at large would find disagreeable. Most people hate the rich, and I'm sure they're all for killing the tax cuts.

[Imajika]

5. See, that is where you are wrong...

"Most people hate the rich"

In the US, many/most people think they can become rich. Most Americans do NOT hate the rich. There is almost no class consciousness in the United States. We are much different than Europe and other places in the world in this regard.

This identifying with the rich and believing that if one plays their cards right they will join the ranks of the rich is one reason it is very difficult to organize workers in America.

[LawnLover]

8. I highly doubt

that most or even many people THINK they can become rich. They may dream of it, certainly. It's the dream we've been fed for decades. But most people know in their hearts that they'll never be rich and they envy and resent those who make it.

Look at the reality shows that feature rich housewives and spoiled rich kids. They are portrayed as self-absorbed idiots, which is undoubtedly the reason the shows are so popular.

[Imajika]

9. Americans simply do not hate the rich...

We have a very difficult time in this country organizing along class lines for precisely this reason.

[namahage]

11. Hate the rich? Possibly.

Hate them enough to allow their own taxes to go up? Not bloody likely.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Hell, MSNBC headline reads:

"Senate GOP blocks bill to let Bush-era tax cuts expire." As if there was a bill introduced to kill the already expiring tax cuts, and they blocked it.

So, the GOP is valiantly fighting a bill that would kill the tax cuts - which half the people reading it don't know is a fucking LIE.

[Aramchek]

4. exactly. if you follow the link the actual headline is "Senate bid to renew 'middle class' tax"

yet they decided to change that to "Senate GOP blocks bill to let Bush-era
tax cuts expire" for their front page which is all most people see.

It's pure propaganda. Goebbels would be so proud.

[flpoljunkie]

6. Wow, MSNBC! Could you be more duplicitous! Incredible PR spin for the Republican corporate shills!

[Speck Tater]

7. The rich own the media. Hell, the rich own all of us.

We are all peons and peasants. Might as well get used to it. It's not going to change.

[jotsy]

10. Mix your sources up. Advise others to as well.

As more and more learn the rest of the media is abiding by a standard only slightly higher than that of Fixed Noise, they'll either go down in a heap or learn to do the damn job.

Also learn to participate as news deliverers through places like this.
<http://www.newpublicmedia.org/>