Get out your thinking caps & pitchforks
Hey Folks,
I just watched the evening news on NBC. The friendly souls there reported on the latest employment data.
They said new jobs had increased by two-hundred and some thousand, and that the “lion’s share" of these jobs were in the “service sector.” Remember that a few years ago when the jobs started disappearing at high speed we were told that it would take FOUR-hundred thousand jobs a month for a period of years to recoup the losses. We have seldom –if ever – reached that level (although the radio broadcasts I’d heard earlier today called the two-hundred thousand level “good news.”
Remember also that the largest part of the jobs lost THEN were living wage jobs, but the service sector jobs providing the “good news” are subsistence wage jobs.
BUT
Here is what drove the Uke Man insane (and I’m NOT making this up):
Earlier on the radio news programs, with a straight voice, after reporting the “good news” of increased job offerings, they hurriedly mumbled that “the unemployment rate had increased.”
They didn’t choke, hiccup, cough, explain, or apologize. They just “reported” their contradictory tripe and moved on. THAT gave ME pause, but the 6:30 TV news would top it.
Brian Williams, like his radio pals, reported the increased number of jobs, but HE explained that the unemployment rate had gotten worse because the increase in the number of jobs had caused more people to look for work!
Now, Folks! Read that again:
the unemployment rate had gotten worse because the increase in the number of jobs had caused more people to look for work!
I’m sorry, but THAT is INSANE SHIT!!!
Where does it come from? Who told the media such crap? (Yeah, I know there’s some technical bullshit about the way “they” figure unemployment and I know “they” can explain it away because people “give up” on employment; so they aren’t REALLY unemployed even though they don’t have a job and want a job but can’t find a job–it all makes sense if you buy their underlying principles [which are designed to provide them with shit to feed the talking heads and to, in turn, provide a rationalle for feeding them that shit if anyone ever calls “them” on it] ).
But folks, it DOESN’T MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE – unless you are in bed with “them” – or unless you are one of those deluded people who thinks Donald Rumsfeld's "answers" make sense .
What does it say about the media that they uncritically pass insane shit like this along?
What does it say about us if we don’t even notice it when they fuck us – and not just the politicians, but also the friendly, fresh faced men and voluptuous women of network news who smile so nicely as they slip it in!
Wake up, folks!
There’s a protest on March 19 – Be there!!!
More on that soon.
- Uke Man
I just watched the evening news on NBC. The friendly souls there reported on the latest employment data.
They said new jobs had increased by two-hundred and some thousand, and that the “lion’s share" of these jobs were in the “service sector.” Remember that a few years ago when the jobs started disappearing at high speed we were told that it would take FOUR-hundred thousand jobs a month for a period of years to recoup the losses. We have seldom –if ever – reached that level (although the radio broadcasts I’d heard earlier today called the two-hundred thousand level “good news.”
Remember also that the largest part of the jobs lost THEN were living wage jobs, but the service sector jobs providing the “good news” are subsistence wage jobs.
BUT
Here is what drove the Uke Man insane (and I’m NOT making this up):
Earlier on the radio news programs, with a straight voice, after reporting the “good news” of increased job offerings, they hurriedly mumbled that “the unemployment rate had increased.”
They didn’t choke, hiccup, cough, explain, or apologize. They just “reported” their contradictory tripe and moved on. THAT gave ME pause, but the 6:30 TV news would top it.
Brian Williams, like his radio pals, reported the increased number of jobs, but HE explained that the unemployment rate had gotten worse because the increase in the number of jobs had caused more people to look for work!
Now, Folks! Read that again:
the unemployment rate had gotten worse because the increase in the number of jobs had caused more people to look for work!
I’m sorry, but THAT is INSANE SHIT!!!
Where does it come from? Who told the media such crap? (Yeah, I know there’s some technical bullshit about the way “they” figure unemployment and I know “they” can explain it away because people “give up” on employment; so they aren’t REALLY unemployed even though they don’t have a job and want a job but can’t find a job–it all makes sense if you buy their underlying principles [which are designed to provide them with shit to feed the talking heads and to, in turn, provide a rationalle for feeding them that shit if anyone ever calls “them” on it] ).
But folks, it DOESN’T MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE – unless you are in bed with “them” – or unless you are one of those deluded people who thinks Donald Rumsfeld's "answers" make sense .
What does it say about the media that they uncritically pass insane shit like this along?
What does it say about us if we don’t even notice it when they fuck us – and not just the politicians, but also the friendly, fresh faced men and voluptuous women of network news who smile so nicely as they slip it in!
Wake up, folks!
There’s a protest on March 19 – Be there!!!
More on that soon.
- Uke Man
1 Comments:
Hi Tom,
Wonderful reporting of the unbelievable news media. However, I do believe the protest is March 18. I'll be there. Sondra
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