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Oh Rly? How about this. First Bloomberg news is partially owned, and much run by Micheal Bloomberg a liberal politician. It's 'news' pieces are highly slanted
by toast_coder 10y ago
Oh Rly? How about this.
First Bloomberg news is partially owned, and much run by Micheal Bloomberg a liberal politician. It's 'news' pieces are highly slanted with a liberal bias. It's nice that they have positioned itself as financial news, as opposed to being something like Slate, take a look inside your self, in how you would respond to a news article coming from "Trump News" in another universe and decide if you would be so critical so somebody making a disparaging comment about that.
As for this particular article, it's first sentence makes the declaration that if you agree that more should be spent on infrastructure, your part of the "all right-thinking", which of course implies that to not think so is definitely "wrong-thinking". Great, glad we got this bit sorted out early.
Then I get to hear the author talk about why he doesn't think unions are the problem. While he has a couple lines relating to why they might be a relationship there, he doesn't really think so because he will use the ending line in the paragraph to explain why that premise is wrong. Ya know, a simple debate tactic where I entertain your silly notion for a minute before leaving the audience hanging on all my reasons why that notion is false.
I suppose it was low hanging fruit to simple knock Bloomberg like that, but in the quest to learn about the world you find quite a bit politically loaded junk, that it deserves to be called out, just like this piece.
A respectable piece calling for more spending & greater efficiency in infrastructure spending should have spelled out how many hundred of billions of dollars are currently spent, what are the serious infrastructure problems effecting us today are, and what our realistic options are for prioritizing a getting more for our money.
This piece is nothing more than a shallow reinforcement for a certain type of thinking regarding spending more government money and how unions are great.
//that's how
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