He Who Controls The Information Controls The World

After a few back and forth emails with editors and staff of the Dallas Morning News over the last couple weeks regarding two different topics, I have come to the conclusion the only way America can survive is for moderate conservatives and independents to become more involved in owning the primary sources of information.  That means buying major media networks.  We already know all but Fox are controlled by liberals, but we may not truly understand how pervasive throughout the industry the extreme far left's control is.  Apparently most editors and columnists seem to swallow the Obamacrat bullshit hook, line and sinker.  Instead of people like the Koch Brothers lavishing campaign contributions on conservative candidates, the money might be better spent buying up controlling interests in influential newspapers and television networks.

One big problem with the media is that they typically phrase the headlines and soundbites in favorable terms for the Democrats, when reading the details reveals more problematic and unfavorable interpretations.  Unfortunately many people don't read the details, and the broadcast media often doesn't mention them.  Even the Wall Street Journal is not immune from this misleading habit.

For example, today's WSJ (4/15/14, page A3) has a headline that reads "Narrower Deficit Now Seen for 2014".  Reading the details tells us the CBO lowered forecasts for the 2014 deficit due to reductions in military spending (a really bad idea) and falling future cost projections associated with ObamaCare.  But the details also mention the deficit is expected to begin rising again in 2016 and continue growing for years due to rising health care costs, and the ratio of government debt to GDP is already at the historically high level of 74% and continuing ever upward.  By the way, the headline for the same story in the Dallas Morning News was "Deficit shrinking - for now", at least a bit more honest.

Another headline for the same day on page A4  of the WSJ reads "Health Premiums: Slower Rise Seen", one of the reasons for the narrower deficit mentioned in the paragraph above.  The headline for the same story in the DMN (4/15/15, page 7A) was a similarly misleading "CBO: Cost of health insurance subsidies to drop".  Of course the details tell us that the CBO still expects insurance premiums to continue rising over the next decade, they are just starting out lower than expected.  Furthermore, premiums are only one aspect of the cost of health care to Americans.  Premiums may be less than expected, but they are still higher than they were for individuals who do not receive government subsidies.  Even more important, deductibles are higher than under old plans so the total cost of health care will be going up even faster for individuals whose insurance does not pay anything until they cover the deductibles. 

In addition, experience with ObamaCare over the next several years is more than likely to indicate that the number of people under the age of 30 who sign up will be less than expected, which will drive premiums up at an even faster rate.  On top of all that, the CBO projects that 31 million people will still be uninsured in the US in 2024 when the point of the whole thing was to make sure everyone was covered.  Obviously the newspapers and television news reporters need somebody with a little more integrity writing the headlines and the soundbites.