The Nation - Selected Editorial

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Aug 7 13:39:27 PDT 1998


michael perelman wrote:


>The way to save Social Security is to put the money in the stock market,
>appoint Lt. Calley to run it and then move the operations to Mai Lai.
>Why has the media let the repubs. use such Orwellian language?

Because most reporters are upper-middle income and ape the preferences of their employers, who are members of the bourgeoisie. And because most reporters don't know what they're talking about, so they turn to consecrated "experts," who are in the pay of the monied. Everybody knows that, right?

Doug



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