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The Colonial Pipeline spill has caused 6 states (Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and North Carolina) to declare a state of emergency. Gasoline (petrol) prices on the east coast are likely to spike. Yet, most puzzling is how this vast emergency and its likely effect on cost of living has gone unnoticed by mainstream media outlets. The pipeline is owned by Koch Industries: is this why the media is silent?
[Are there any Soylentils in the affected area who can corroborate this story? Have you heard of the spill, seen long gas lines, or any price gouging? -Ed.]
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Six US States Declare Emergency after Major Gasoline Pipeline Spill; Media Almost Silent
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @11:49AM
That's all that is.
The notion that the liberal media would try to run interference for Koch Industries, rather than blaring the news from the rooftops, is, simply, batshit insane.
Nothing here to see. Just another left-wing moonbat with a tingle up his leg, over Charles and David's Koch audacity to exercise their 1st amendment rights.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @12:09PM
The "liberal media" is owned by rich conservatives.
Furthermore "liberal" is way too one-dimensional. The reporters are liberal in that they live in big cities where multicuturalism is rampant, they eat at ethnic restaurants, they have friends and even family members that are either immigrants or come from immigrant families, they know people who are gay, out and often married. For them being "liberal" is just a function of their environment. But none of that cultural liberalism translates into being economically liberal. Historically the more educated and the more rich you were the more likely you were to be a republican. Not for the racism, that's for the poor wing of the party, the people for whom "you may be poor, but at least you are still white" was comforting, but for the economic policies.
I'm not saying there is a conspiracy to suppress the story about the pipeline burst. But what I am saying is that the press is a lot more friendly to the rich than you make it out to be. Hell, the Koch brothers are one of the biggest donors to PBS. For many years David Koch was on the board for WGBH-TV, the Boston PBS affiliate that produces two-thirds of PBS's nationally distributed programming.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @12:43PM
Gee, I didn't know that the New York Times, Boston Globe, ABC, CBS, and NBC, are all owned by "rich conservatives".
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @12:51PM
Well now you do know.
Hell, Carlos Slim is the largest shareholder of the NYT. Nobody would ever confuse that guy with a liberal.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday September 19 2016, @06:20PM
Oh I dunno about that. He grew up in a Socialist country (you might have heard of the Mexican Revolution. If you were educated in the U.S. you weren't taught that it was one of 'those' revolutions. It was.) Read Slim's Wikipedia page, note (and note how carefully it isn't openly stated) how plugged into the Mexican government he had to be to pull most of his deals. Add in the observable fact he was allowed to gain effective control of the U.S. Socialist Party's principle propaganda pipeline. He was known to them and is believed an acceptable holder of the asset. In exactly the same way Bezos was carefully vetted before being allowed to outright buy the #2 PR shop pushing Party propaganda into the media bloodstream.
But the big tell is that Slim is one of the richest people in the world, he isn't a God of Silicon Valley and yet the usual suspects do not hate him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @08:07PM
> Read Slim's Wikipedia page, note (and note how carefully it isn't openly stated) how plugged into the Mexican government he had to be to pull most of his deals.
Only in jmorris's fantasyland is corrupt government cronyism a sign of being liberal.
Here's a clue for you: Money makes you illiberal, the more money the less liberal you are likely to be because, as the original social justice warrior once said, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @08:13PM
...because it's anti-Capitalist in Mexico and The Workers own the means of production there.
What's that you say? That's the complete OPPOSITE of the facts?
Hmmm. That must mean that jmorris is still full of shit.
one of the richest people in the world
...in a "socialist" country.
jmorris continues to use words that he doesn't understand.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @01:32PM
Actually, it's the notion that the media are liberal that is, simply, batshit insane.
Things that we would hear more of if the MSM really were liberal
Single Payer Health Care
Workers' Rights
Breaking up "too big to fail"
The DNC's suppression of anti-Clinton voices
East Timor
H1-B (aka modern bracero program)
Election Financing reform
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Francis on Monday September 19 2016, @01:40PM
The worst thing about it is that the press keeps trying to appease the batshit insane contingent by giving the right coverage that's downright charitable. It took the press about 6 years to start actually taking President Bush to task for the various misdeeds that were going on. 6 freaking years.
But, you still get people whining about the liberal media even though the evidence is pretty damning that not only are they not liberal, the coverage is usually quite conservative. Good luck getting factual information from the mainstream press about the various crimes against humanity being committed by the Israelis or the destruction that the federal reserve has caused in the US.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @10:20PM
Nah, you're just paranoid because George Soros hatched a plot to make weed legal, and even if you don't smoke it yourself it causes paranoid memes to propagate. I know, because Soros is to conservatives what Koch is to liberals.