Media dogs with no conscience.
The TV news I’m subjected to when over at my friend’s house, KGW TV, has today been doing a news report about how government workers (blue collar, etc; not Congress-critters and the like) who were furloughed got unemployment *and* back pay of $450 each. They’re acting like it’s this huge outrage, calling it “double dipping” and yakking about it being a waste of taxpayer money. They’re pissed that these workers don’t have to pay it back. They’re even calling it “time off.” Time off? Yeah, because weeks of worrying about how you’re going to feed yourself and your children, weeks of dipping into your savings and your children’s college fund (from a previous KGW news cast) REALLY counts as “time off.” FUCK YOU, KGW.
Where was this outrage at the idiots who orchestrated the shutdown to begin with? Why are they blaming blameless people? The shutdown itself cost millions of dollars, and were’re going to begrudge blameless workers a few thousand total?
I mean, that back pay isn't even really pay in normal sense. It’s basically the government giving them a monetary apology for putting them through all that stress and worry.
What’s worse, the station was extremely sympathetic to the furloughed workers during the shutdown. Then the minute it was over, they turn on these workers like rabid dogs eating their masters. Because as anyone paying attention knows, the media doesn't give a shit; anything for ratings.
Grr... this fucking news cast makes me want to punch the news critters in the throat.
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Where was this outrage at the idiots who orchestrated the shutdown to begin with? Why are they blaming blameless people? The shutdown itself cost millions of dollars, and were’re going to begrudge blameless workers a few thousand total?
I mean, that back pay isn't even really pay in normal sense. It’s basically the government giving them a monetary apology for putting them through all that stress and worry.
What’s worse, the station was extremely sympathetic to the furloughed workers during the shutdown. Then the minute it was over, they turn on these workers like rabid dogs eating their masters. Because as anyone paying attention knows, the media doesn't give a shit; anything for ratings.
Grr... this fucking news cast makes me want to punch the news critters in the throat.
This was cross-posted from http://alex-antonin.dreamwidth.org/222580.html
You can comment either here or there.