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For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America.
When we began the BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week, we emphasized that
these were not lifetime achievement awards. We were seeking to highlight exhibitions
worthy of the Media Putz Hall of Shame by noting recent examples of debased
media pundit behavior.
That is why BuzzFlash reader Dave of New York nominated Erin Burnett of CNBC,
for recently promoting a policy of letting China continue to manufacture toys
with lead in them and produce poisonous foods because -- get this -- it keeps
prices low at Wal-Mart!
We will let Dave from Queens take it from there:
Can someone really be this
cruel and this stupid at the same time?
In the case of Erin Burnett, the answer is yes.
"A lot of people like to say, uh, scaremonger about China, right?" Burnett
recently commented on "Hardball." "A lot of politicians,
and I know you talk about that issue all the time. I think people should
be careful
what they wish for on China. You know, if China were to revalue its currency
or China is to start making say, toys that don't have lead in them or
food that isn't poisonous, their costs of production are going to go
up and
that means prices at Wal-Mart here in the United States are going to
go up too.
So, I would say China is our greatest friend right now, they're keeping
prices low and they're keeping the prices for mortgages low, too."
It's obvious that the news media is owned by elitist corporate shills
who believe that big corporations and the ultra wealthy should be granted
carte
blanche
power to do as they please, but this obvious? No amount of spinning can
change what she said. She said it, she meant it and she should be shamed
for it. Marie
Antoinette said, "Let them eat cake." Compared to Erin Burnett,
Marie Antoinette looks like the compassionate of the two conservatives.
At least
Marie Antoinette never openly advocated allowing poison in the cake mix
and Happy Meals with free leaded toys.
Yes, Dave, how correct you are. But we have to give Burnett some credit.
At least she's out front as a promoter of the "profits (the Wal-Mart heirs
are always among the wealthiest people in America) come before the health of
people" school of rapacious corporate greed, although wrapped in the language
of "keeping prices low."
She epitomized in one pithy defense how little the literal health of the consumer
matters in the world of Republican multinational corporate economics. And Burnett,
appearing on a station owned by those same corporate interests, candidly revealed
what really drives most of the commentary in the land of the mainstream punditry
echo chamber: keeping the world safe for gross profiteering through cheap labor.
Normally, the BuzzFlash Media Putz is a person who receives the award for what
she or he concealed or fabricated. Burnett gets the honors this week for actually
opening a rare window of devastating frankness and showing us the heart of
darkness at the core of the corporately owned media.
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