Media myopia.During the Democratic debate at St. Anselm College, Charles Gibson
Charles "Charlie" Dewolf Gibson , the moderator, expressed his concerns at proposals by Barack Obama and John Edwards  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. to raise the cap on payroll taxes on income above $100,000. Won't that hurt you St. Anselm professors who are married and whose combined income is more than $200,000? asked Gibson. The professors in the audience laughed. Obviously, not a lot of them made $100,000. Gibson, hearing the laughter, suggested that many New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. schoolteachers made more than $100,000. Again, he was wrong, which illustrates one of my favorite points, which is that media heavyweights make so much money that they have lost touch with the reality lived by most Americans--80 percent of whom not only make less than $100,000, they make less than $80,000. Another example of this ignorance is the drumbeat See Drumbeat 2000. for relief of the alternative minimum tax, which largely affects those making more than $100,000, from the editorial pages of the Washington Post and the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, which led to the quick passage of a bill giving relief even though it contained no corresponding revenue from other sources to make up what is lost by the bill. Charles Peters is the founding editor of the Washington Monthly. |
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