Moral Bankruptcy & Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex

A nation that can fund Resource Wars, create chaos and conflict around the globe, and can't provide food for its citizens, is Morally Bankrupt. 


"This impoverishment of journalists impoverishes journalism. We come to find less and less in the media about the working poor, as if about 15% of the population quietly emigrated while we weren’t looking. Media outlets traditionally neglected stories about the downtrodden because they don’t sit well on the same page with advertisements for diamonds and luxury homes. And now there are fewer journalists on hand at major publications to arouse the conscience of editors and other gatekeepers. Coverage of poverty accounts for less than 1% of American news, or, as former Times columnist Bob Herbert has put it: “We don’t have coverage of poverty in this country. If there is a story about poor people in the New York Times or in the Washington Post, that’s the exception that proves the rule. We do not cover poverty. We do not cover the poor.”

In America, only the rich can afford to write about poverty | Barbara Ehrenreich

There’s something wrong with the fact that a relatively affluent person can afford to write about minimum wage jobs while people experiencing them can’t

WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM|BY BARBARA EHRENREICH