Taken to Task: A Poverty of News, an Embarrassment of Media

THANK YOU, Aaron, for touching on what so many Americans are thinking, feeling, and/or experiencing that most of the media just doesn't seem to get at all!

What a crock! The author is desperate to tell "poor" Americans how poor they are, probably in hopes they believe it, then takes the media to task because they are not helping get the word out?! Please stop the blatant liberalism.

The OWS people should be at all the media's door steps. Chanting!!!! NO MORE LIES.

Good Ole liberal lies. That's what they do. The media and the devil.

Yahoo is part of this #$%$ Day in and day out Kim K, Pippa Middleton gets a parking ticket, star reveals training secrets, etc. People are starving in the United States of America.

All these Karmashian celebrity scenes are getting ridiculously old and stale. Is this all she does is pose in front of media cameras all day long........BORING and a waste of time and money

You have a generation of adults raised on MTV and Oprah Winfrey.
They have given way to the "Reality TV" generation.

These two groups don't want to know anything substantive about life or society. They don't want to sacrifice or discipline or help. They just want to watch Jerry Springer and The Kardashians.

TERM LIMITS!!!!!! Congress is a disgrace!

Americans ARE not going to wake up

Gone is the fair and honest reporting of significant news stories that impact our lifes. We are now flooded with fluffy stories to divert our attention away from the real issues killing this country. Wake up America and see where your ignorance has put us.

Thank you! You don't hear much news on the news anymore.

Thank you for speaking the truth. We are in the middle of a national crisis -- every day -- but the press won't acknowledge until there are widespread riots across the country and revolution has begun. Wake up America!

Forty-six million Americans do NOT have enough to eat. One of four children living with hunger. Over a quarter of all Americans either unemployed or underemployed. Sixty percent of Americans living paycheck to paycheck. One out of four males over the age of fifty unemployed. Record numbers of veterans homeless and unemployed. One-third of home sales are foreclosure. Millions thrown into the streets by the nation's banks. Millions of youth suffering predatory student loans. Sixty percent of college graduates unable to work in their field. And the only credit choice is usury or none.

Income inequality is worse than Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Ethiopiain and ranks between Uganda and the Ivory Coast. While four hundred Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined, the percentage of hungry is three times larger than in China.

Meanwhile Congress has cut heating oil assistance and food for pregnant women??? What part of "national emergency" is not understood?

This is not a country, government nor religion that I can recognize. And there WILL be consequences.

for those of you who have tivo have you ever recorded the "news"? our local "news" is minus commercials is 11 min and most of it is the weather so how much real news do we get the "national news" CBS NBC fox lasts a whopping 20 minutes minus commercials and a 1/3 of that is fluff I wish we had real news like we did when I was a kid

I only have $676.43 to my name and no job. HELP!

I could not agree more...

I would just love to go one week without hearing about the shallow Kardashians--please spare us!

Thanks, Aaron. A good reminder of the large percentage of the media feed is garbage. The government figures on inflation and unemployment rates are sketchy, the result is continuation of bad policy. It does not take an expert to see and experience income inequality and rising prices with decreasing wages...

Poverty is the termite damage to an economy. Nobody want's to hear about it; see it or do what it will take to destroy it and fix the foundation damage caused by it. No house, country or economy can stand with chronic poverty. Why? Money moves homes, countries & economies. But the impoverish have little or no $$ ... so they learn to TAKE from those who do have LIFE's NECESSITIES... knowing the rich can easily replace their losses. Now, I don't condone the "entitlement" mentality but do support people WORKING to care for themselves and helping one another get through life, one day at a time. And if companies do cough up more jobs, restrain profits, and soon... it WILL go bad for them all. I mean, where will you hide on a planet which is getting smaller every day?

I've always felt this way. Let's make humanity important again and stop worrying about celebs and their latest gossip. Let's remember who we are as humans, and not what the media thinks we should be.

lets face the the true cold facts of the issue of poverty if look back 15-20 years ago you did not see all the people living so far off into poverty where you could not walk down the streets and see 100's of people sleeping in the streets like you do now . it is a problem our faithful goverment has caused but don't have the to admit it.. be cuase there views are not focoused on what can we do to make america better but stuck on forien countries problems and spend billions of dollars trying to there problems and making them better... and allowing the companys to move thier bussiness's to foriegn lands for cheaper labor.. and allowing all these people from other countries to come over to america aand take over all the bussiness knowing that they will not hire an american but if we don't hire them were wrong ... American goverment needs to get the balls to tell other country's to her #$%$ we will help, we need to help our people and country first.....