Thank you, writer Bill Kaplan, for
this history lesson:
Back in the late 1990s Petri and Sensenbrenner voted against disaster
relief for flood victims in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Shortly afterward, torrential rainfall and flooding ravaged southeastern
Wisconsin. Petri and Sensenbrenner clamored for flood relief. And, in
2005 Sensenbrenner even voted against Hurricane Katrina aid, saying the
bill lacked "accountability."
Later in 2007 Petri, Ryan and
Sensenbrenner called for "full public assistance to help Wisconsin
communities devastated by severe flooding...to rebuild public
infrastructure such as dams, roads and bridges ..." So it goes.
The hypocrisy is one thing -- and it is bad -- but the bigger problem is a media oligopoly that feels entitled to the public's business and support of advertisers yet delivers no real news.
ReplyDeleteSure, hypocrites are responsible for their behavior, but propaganda enables it to go one and on and on and on.
And it all happens under the lie that we were all taught in school; that journalism is "objective" and "balanced".