I've come to the realization that one of the bigger reasons that our unemployment rate remains so high is a severe lack of consumer confidence. Taxes are as low as they have ever been so average citizens are taking home more of their pay than ever. Additionally the rich have more money than ever and businesses have more money then ever which they would happily spend to hire people and manufacture more products but people aren't buying because they lack confidence.
Over the first eight years of this century I was inundated with emails from Republicans on how the news never reports the good things. Oddly enough these emails have all but disappeared since Obama was elected President. Well now Fox News does nothing but report how awful things are. They bag on the President. They Bag on congress. They bag on the economy. They bag on almost everything.
Fox news and some of its pundits seem to like nothing more than to brag about the size of their audience. Well, with a large voice comes a large responsibility and Fox News needs to realize that they, though their doomsday reporting, are part of the problem not part of the solution. They are need to realize that they are making a choice to report in the way they do. They will hide behind their first amendment rights but that doesn't change the fact that they have an agenda and that continuing to push their agenda using the lowest form of reporting, is detrimental to their viewers and the American public in general.
During WWII the government (which would clearly be Socialist today) ran adds before movies talking about how well the war effort was going and trying to uplift the American spirit and Patriotism. If Fox News were in charge of that coverage, given that the President was a Democrat, you can bet that all of the talk would be about how bad things looked and how true Patriots are against this war.
Fox News is certainly not the only news outlet to paint an increasingly grim picture of America but it is the only one that does it for political gain. And for that they should be embarrassed.
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