Journalists pushing us too far.

I just listened to a podcast of "PRI World: Economy Weekly" (or something close to that). I got to listen to reporters/journalists who were discussing the mess that our "world" economy is in. The first story that struck me as grating was one on the bonuses that the AIG "executives" supposedly got. Here we had journalists calmly telling us facts about something incredibly disgusting and insulting without showing any sign that they heard what was being said; my blood really began to boil. We heard Pres. Obama say that he thought that bonuses were for people who did something especially good(!) at work. I can imagine a guy who stacks his 100 bags of cement better than his colleagues getting a bonus - because he's so good. What I can't imagine is someone who contributed to the downfall of a huge company getting a bonus for it. I assume the President feels like this, but no journalist thought to mention that. The blatant "flipping the bird" that we're getting from these AIG executives is the story(!) and that was ignored/down-played - instead we were treated to a professor and a lexicographer who told us to calm down and behave. If I had either of their salaries I'd be calm, too. Sure, some people had voiced their shock/disgust to the AIG bonuses on a blog (somewhere), but this was also somehow "childish"; "Oh, the language that was used, we can't use on the air. Ha-ha-ha." Just what are these journalists thinking when they report these things?? About getting a bonus themselves?
Then came an interview with a woman who had "lost her job" at Bear-Sterns. A woman, who most likely earned more in one month than the normal person earns in ten years, told about how she was "devastated" when she got fired. Are you people thinking when you interview?? She isn't "partying" anymore. She didn't celebrate her wedding because she wanted to get lots of presents. And the interviewer laughs along with her - ha-ha-ha. Are you actually trying(!) to get us furious? How much money does this Bear-Sterns woman have? How could you actually think that this is a phenomenon to report on. Are you interviewing her(!) for our "entertainment"? Ask her how she was involved in tricking people out of their money and letting the tax-payer bail the company out. Or try interviewing someone who is really in trouble because(!) of what these people did over the last ten years. That is the story here.

This is a comment on the show today June 21 Even though it was about somebodies father and it was Fathers'
Day. It cannot be news that those in the advertising business find it hard even in their personal lives to separate fact from fiction, truth from lies. Alice Hoffman (delcohoffman@comcast. net

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