Source: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
by Paul Hedreen
“Debates over whether Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s economic proposals constitute Communist price controls or merely technocratic consumer protections are obscuring a more insidious thread within corporate media. In coverage of Harris’s anti-price-gouging proposal, it’s taken for granted that price inflation, especially in the grocery sector, is an organic and unavoidable result of market forces, and thus any sort of intervention is misguided at best, and economy-wrecking at worst. In this rare instance where a presidential hopeful has a policy that is both economically sound and popular, corporate media have fixated on Harris’s proposal as supposedly misguided. To dismiss any deeper discussion of economic phenomena like elevated price levels, and legislation that may correct them, media rely on an appeal to ‘basic economics.'” [editor’s note: If only this pundit (and that corporate media) actually knew what that term means – SAT] (09/25/24)
https://fair.org/slider/media-throw-everything-but-the-facts-against-harriss-price-control-proposal/