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“Left-Leaning Economists Question Cost of Bernie Sanders’ Plans,” declared the New York Times. All the quoted economists have ties to the Democratic establishment, and their leftward lean would require very sensitive equipment to measure.
If you’ve been watching the network news over the last year or two, you know that Social Security’s going broke and the only choices facing us are to cut benefits, raise taxes, push back the retirement age, or throw the system onto the mercies of the stock market. An Extra! review of more than a […]
Democracy in America is a strange thing. Campaigns focus on trivialities, while the big issues–especially those involving lots of money–are decided by elites and presented to the public as faits accomplis. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the “debate” over Social Security reform. I’ve written here before (7-8/95) about the dubious predictions of the […]
Thirty years ago, when Barry Goldwater proposed making Social Security voluntary, he was dismissed as a lunatic. Now, however, the radical transformation of Social Security–essentially its privatization–is the consensus among the political class and the pundits who serve them. The strategy of the privatizers is proving quite successful. Sow doubts about the future solvency of […]
In 1985, Capital Cities, a company with interests in TV, radio and publishing, spent $3.4 billion to take over the American Broadcasting Co., a company four times its size. At the time, ABC employees feared their new parent’s tight fists and sharp eyes. Cap Cities management has certainly lived up to its advance billing; the […]
Don’t get too far from the establishment. —Walter Lippmann to Katharine Graham File Lippmann’s remark under the category of superfluous advice. Graham and the company of which she is “chairman”—she lists herself in the D.C. phone book as “Graham, Philip L. Mrs.”—have never entertained a thought of straying from the establishment. In 1933, when Graham’s […]
This is the second in a series on media corporations by the editor of Left Business Observer.
The New York Times is not only the newspaper of record for the Fortune 500, it is also a member in good standing of that elite group of corporate giants. Though a number of press critics have dissected the ideological biases, deadly prose and institutional arrogance of the Times, its business operations are less frequently […]
