Also a media crisis.
Two parties, two frontrunners, one a president, the other one a former president. Both at the same exact place in primary polls. Both face challengers. But only one gets taken seriously. Could the reason be media spin?
Afflicting the Comfortable since 2002
Two parties, two frontrunners, one a president, the other one a former president. Both at the same exact place in primary polls. Both face challengers. But only one gets taken seriously. Could the reason be media spin?
Vote how we tell you to or be blamed for the death of democracy is a strange perspective. https://t.co/gdrbxUpvk6
— Ty Reynolds (@MMAtylander) May 27, 2023
Media considers white-collar crime -- no matter how consequential -- boring and unreportable. Meanwhile crimes like shoplifting and fare-jumping are endlessly fascinating to reporters and editors.
The result of this is a pattern in which crimes typically committed by rich people are barely acknowledged, no matter how many millions of dollars are involved, while crimes typically committed by poor people are put in the spotlight. The media paints a very deceptive picture and unfortunately many Americans are fooled.
I don't care for Biden and won't be voting for him, but I don't hold animosity for the man in the way that Mike Fluggenock does.
It is with anxiety, chagrin and dread that I present this, my first cartoon of the 2024 Presidential “election” slog ...
…and despite the massive disappointment and lack of enthusiasm of huge swaths of Democratic voters, Gropin’ Joe announced his re-election campaign kickoff with a promise to “finish the job”… at which point yours truly, like millions of others, is cringing and asking themselves: what job would THAT be — immiserating the poor and the working class? Terrorizing immigrants and bullying our next-door neighbors? Fattening up the war profiteers and Wall Street? Beating down anti-war dissent in public media? Dragging us into World War III?
Lotta big jobs to finish there, Joester; guess you’re going to need four more years to thoroughly fuck shit up, huh?