Since I live 12 times zones away, I'm alert and at my desk in the wee hours of the MSM's morning. So I often notice some interesting little switcheroos that take place in the headlines while most Americans are asleep. Today's was a whopper. I booted up the nytimes.com site to see this:
Insolvency for Social Security and Medicare Is Seen Closer
New York Times - ?9 hours ago?
By BRIAN KNOWLTON WASHINGTON — The financial outlook for Medicare and Social Security has significantly worsened, as the bad economy and mounting job losses ...
Of course I got really pissed off. As we all know, the "insolvency" meme is just plain false. And lumping Social Security together with Medicare is apples/oranges.
Then a few minutes ago I returned to the nytimes.com front page to find this Brian Knowlton article's been replaced by one less apocalyptic, with a completely new headline, byline, angle and lede:
Could it be that the hundreds of intelligent and sensible reader comments that appeared within two hours of publication had something to do with the change in emphasis?
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CNN was spewing forth the same party line this aft
Wolfie earned his keep today.
JFK has been shot, we miss him a lot
He always knew what to do
-- Philly Cream
And this AM CBS radio did the same.
It's almost as if there's an underlying corporate agenda. /understatement
JFK has been shot, we miss him a lot
He always knew what to do
-- Philly Cream
It was in the ticker crawl
On my local CBS affiliate this morning. It angered me too.
Especially because they only give enough info to upset the populace, like the fact the Medicare is currently paying out more than it is taking in, and Social Security will begin to do so in 2016. Assholes.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
The first headline is what Obama et al wants bruited about!
Geithner was on it yesterday, Sebelius mentioned it (her focus was need to "reform" Medicare and get that into the healthcare reform legislation).
They're looking to do it all in the healthcare bill, I think. Big Insurance protection, masquerading as healthcare reform; Medicare/Medicaid reform; and SocSec reform.
Deform?
They *had* to change the headline
They don't want us to panic, they just want our support to scrap social security. I'd like to know if it is "insolvent" before or after TARP borrowing.
Here's how the heist will go down:
Obama/Gibbs/Geithner will announce: "The SS money's all gone."
America will reply: "Oh."
Just like 12-12-2000.
JFK has been shot, we miss him a lot
He always knew what to do
-- Philly Cream
My local paper ran the panic-inducing head
"Medicare, SS Closer to Insolvency"
which I at first read as "close" to insolvency.
Think I'll write them a letter.
We will push and push and push until some larger force makes us stop.