oil conspiracies
Oil in the News
By Daniel G. Jennings
People who wonder why Americans have no respect for journalists should take a look at the news media’s deliberate ignorance of the biggest story of our times: the depletion of oil and the resulting high gasoline prices.
Average Americans, the vast majority of whom drive and put up with high prices at the pump are all too aware of this story. Yet the big media with the interesting exception of the Drudge Report has systematically buried it.
Take my home town’s leading newspaper The Denver Post gas prices have been soaring for weeks in the Mile High City and average people have been complaining. Yet front page news has focused on the moronic antics of University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, the state budget crisis, and worse.
One recent Front Page story in the Post the owners of a sled dog business were shooting dogs that were injured or sick. Excuse me folks is that a story? When I was a kid and my parents didn’t have money to spare for the vet but did have some ammo left for my dad’s target pistol and a couple of our pets got sick. Guess how dad put the pets out of their misery? I’m sure a lot of working class Americans can relate that story. Remember Old Yeller?
The Post can’t see high gas prices as a crisis but they think some business guy shooting sick dogs instead of wasting money on veterinarians is a story. It would laughable if the national media wasn’t as pathetic.
On Sunday April 10, I tuned into the Sunday morning news talk fests, the big story was the Pope’s death. The big crisis facing the country was the Senate’s upcoming vote on the selection of federal judges and the selection of the Pope. I watched two of them before I got sick and shut off the set. Fox News didn’t even mention high gas prices. ABC’s show with former Clinton Propaganda Minister George Stephenopolis was worse. The pundits on that show mentioned high gas prices because somebody in the Bush administration correctly that high gas prices were the real cause of Bush’s low approval ratings.
The talking heads on ABC who included George Will and Cokie Roberts quickly pooh pahed this notion. They stated that adjusted for inflation gas prices were higher back in 1982 and so on. Then quickly went on to say that the Bush Social Security reform plan is the real reason for low approval reasons. Since half the population doesn’t know about this plan how does this affect approval ratings?
When I saw this, I felt like a French peasant back in 1789 who had just heard about Marie Antoinette telling starving peasants to eat cake instead of bread. The arrogant media elitists might not notice a dollar rise in gas prices it won’t affect their income based on $300,000 a year salaries but to Joe and Jane Public it’s a major expenditure. A lot of people won’t be going on vacation this summer because of those high gas prices. A lot of working folks will be making wonderful decisions like do I buy health insurance for the family or pay for gas for the car so I can get to work to make money to pay the bills?
The arrogant elitists in the newsrooms can’t see this. After all, their sacrifice will be I guess I don’t go to the movies or the ball game this weekend because gas prices are a little higher. Average people wondering how to buy food to feed the kids and gas to run the car to get to work will have little sympathy for them.
The media elitists will pay for their shortsightedness on this matter as will the politicos. Average people in the lunchrooms of the workplaces of America are already talking. They’re crabbing about high gas prices and wondering about the unseen conspiracy behind them? Sooner or later, some third rate politician will overhear this talk and start naming the members of this conspiracy and a lot of the arrogant fools in the newsrooms will find their names on the list of this modern day McCarthy. I can’t wait, to see the media elitists pay for their shortsightedness, I just hope that our political leaders aren’t as stupid as the self proclaimed journalists on the oil issue.
By Daniel G. Jennings
People who wonder why Americans have no respect for journalists should take a look at the news media’s deliberate ignorance of the biggest story of our times: the depletion of oil and the resulting high gasoline prices.
Average Americans, the vast majority of whom drive and put up with high prices at the pump are all too aware of this story. Yet the big media with the interesting exception of the Drudge Report has systematically buried it.
Take my home town’s leading newspaper The Denver Post gas prices have been soaring for weeks in the Mile High City and average people have been complaining. Yet front page news has focused on the moronic antics of University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, the state budget crisis, and worse.
One recent Front Page story in the Post the owners of a sled dog business were shooting dogs that were injured or sick. Excuse me folks is that a story? When I was a kid and my parents didn’t have money to spare for the vet but did have some ammo left for my dad’s target pistol and a couple of our pets got sick. Guess how dad put the pets out of their misery? I’m sure a lot of working class Americans can relate that story. Remember Old Yeller?
The Post can’t see high gas prices as a crisis but they think some business guy shooting sick dogs instead of wasting money on veterinarians is a story. It would laughable if the national media wasn’t as pathetic.
On Sunday April 10, I tuned into the Sunday morning news talk fests, the big story was the Pope’s death. The big crisis facing the country was the Senate’s upcoming vote on the selection of federal judges and the selection of the Pope. I watched two of them before I got sick and shut off the set. Fox News didn’t even mention high gas prices. ABC’s show with former Clinton Propaganda Minister George Stephenopolis was worse. The pundits on that show mentioned high gas prices because somebody in the Bush administration correctly that high gas prices were the real cause of Bush’s low approval ratings.
The talking heads on ABC who included George Will and Cokie Roberts quickly pooh pahed this notion. They stated that adjusted for inflation gas prices were higher back in 1982 and so on. Then quickly went on to say that the Bush Social Security reform plan is the real reason for low approval reasons. Since half the population doesn’t know about this plan how does this affect approval ratings?
When I saw this, I felt like a French peasant back in 1789 who had just heard about Marie Antoinette telling starving peasants to eat cake instead of bread. The arrogant media elitists might not notice a dollar rise in gas prices it won’t affect their income based on $300,000 a year salaries but to Joe and Jane Public it’s a major expenditure. A lot of people won’t be going on vacation this summer because of those high gas prices. A lot of working folks will be making wonderful decisions like do I buy health insurance for the family or pay for gas for the car so I can get to work to make money to pay the bills?
The arrogant elitists in the newsrooms can’t see this. After all, their sacrifice will be I guess I don’t go to the movies or the ball game this weekend because gas prices are a little higher. Average people wondering how to buy food to feed the kids and gas to run the car to get to work will have little sympathy for them.
The media elitists will pay for their shortsightedness on this matter as will the politicos. Average people in the lunchrooms of the workplaces of America are already talking. They’re crabbing about high gas prices and wondering about the unseen conspiracy behind them? Sooner or later, some third rate politician will overhear this talk and start naming the members of this conspiracy and a lot of the arrogant fools in the newsrooms will find their names on the list of this modern day McCarthy. I can’t wait, to see the media elitists pay for their shortsightedness, I just hope that our political leaders aren’t as stupid as the self proclaimed journalists on the oil issue.
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