Happy To Pay....
In the mornings, while getting the Junior Logician ready for school, I usually put on one of the local news broadcasts to see what the weather is going to be for the day. This morning, I had on Fox 9 News (as I usually do) and I heard something that actually made me stop what I was doing. Going into commercial, anchor Tom Butler, teased a story that was coming up about the Transit Bill. While their reporting on this story was not unexpected, it was what Mr. Butler said that brought me up short.
The emphasis that was put on the "you'll" was what caught me as there appeared to be a certain amount of joy, happyness or excitement in his voice. It struck me as just a little odd that a supposed "neutral observer" would take such delight in the fact that the taxpayers of Minnesota had just been told to "bend over and grab your ankles" by the state Legislature!
What really got to me though was that for the first time in this whole debate, a local media outlet actually listed out many of the new taxes including the 1/4% metro area sales tax increase that is solely for transit. This is the first time that I have heard any of the local media outlets talk about the fact that light rail was going to be a beneficiary of this bill. Heck if you listened to people like Rep. Lieder and Rep. Abler (more on him later) you would have thought that all monies for this bill were going to make our roads "safer" and that those who told you otherwise (like talk radio and bloggers) didn't know what they were talking about!
This in a nutshell is why the voters of MN are looking to new media outlets for information about what is happening in the legislature. They realize that the local media are willing participants with the DFL in pushing these tax increases down our throats.
Stay tuned to True North - there are two more BIG tax bills that are coming. Rep. Lenczewski's Tax bill and the Universal Health Care bills are both supposed to come to the floor this week and True North will be there to cover it for you.
...and coming up, now that the House and the Senate have over-ridden the
Governors veto on the Transportation bill, find out how much in new taxes you’ll
have to pay...
The emphasis that was put on the "you'll" was what caught me as there appeared to be a certain amount of joy, happyness or excitement in his voice. It struck me as just a little odd that a supposed "neutral observer" would take such delight in the fact that the taxpayers of Minnesota had just been told to "bend over and grab your ankles" by the state Legislature!
What really got to me though was that for the first time in this whole debate, a local media outlet actually listed out many of the new taxes including the 1/4% metro area sales tax increase that is solely for transit. This is the first time that I have heard any of the local media outlets talk about the fact that light rail was going to be a beneficiary of this bill. Heck if you listened to people like Rep. Lieder and Rep. Abler (more on him later) you would have thought that all monies for this bill were going to make our roads "safer" and that those who told you otherwise (like talk radio and bloggers) didn't know what they were talking about!
This in a nutshell is why the voters of MN are looking to new media outlets for information about what is happening in the legislature. They realize that the local media are willing participants with the DFL in pushing these tax increases down our throats.
Stay tuned to True North - there are two more BIG tax bills that are coming. Rep. Lenczewski's Tax bill and the Universal Health Care bills are both supposed to come to the floor this week and True North will be there to cover it for you.
Labels: Journalists and Media, Media Bias
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