Is It Me Or Is The Media Making A Bigger Issue Of Gas Prices Rising?.....

[global1]

Just listening to CNN and Susanne Malveaux (sp?) is wowing and saying she's going to have to start riding her bike to work. It looks to me that the media is grabbing on to this gas price issue just to stir the pot for Obama and the Dems. I've seen the same thing being down by other tv news hosts. I think they are trying to cast a shadow on Obama. It's starting to piss me off that they just won't give this guy a break. It's the traders that are running up the price of oil and they are doing it based on fear again.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Of course they're trying to drag down the economy and Obama. You will notice that

there is a real lack of 'news' stories about how speculation is raising the price while we continue to export record barrels-per-day of refined gasoline.

[Fawke Em]

14. And don't forget that most of the news media is owned

by large corporations who would love to see the Keystone Pipeline go through... General Electric immediately springs to mind.

[zbdent]

24. and where is the "liberally-biased media" pointing out that the gas companies, who are always

saying how wonderful life would be if they were only allowed to help the average Joe get "cheaper gas", selling the gas to foreign entities so that they can keep the domestic gas prices high?

Waiting for the "lamestream media" to actually point this out.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

2. Yeppers

It's a reprise of that famous old ditty,

"There's a democrat in the whitehouse, election year, gas price risin' blues"

[DonCoquixote]

3. Of course

They have their orders, and it also helpes that people being angry makes news.

[MicaelS]

4. The media loves to stir up controversy...

Where they can determine the flow of said controversy. It's easier than actually doing real investigative journalism where they might have to get off their ass and ask real questions instead of regurgitating the latest PR release from business or government.

[Skidmore]

5. Where's Occupy Big Oil?

Just asking.

[Gold Metal Flake]

20. Why don't you start it?

Just asking.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. They are harping on the gas prices and hyping up wars

The M$M is so truly disgusting that Walter Cronkite has to be spinning so fast in his grave that he is generating earthquakes!

[liberalhistorian]

7. No, I don't think it's just you, I've noticed the same thing,

Even NPR is getting into the act. I couldn't believe my ears yesterday on All Things Considered; whats-her-name was interviewing someone about the rising gas prices and how it has affected presidencies in the past and how it might affect Obama. The person she was interviewing kept saying that it often doesn't have as much affect on presidential chances and odds as the traditional perception has it, and Melissa Block, unbelievably, just kept pushing and pushing the point. Each time he'd say it might not have that much affect, she'd say "but it COULD do so, couldn't it?" I could NOT believe what I was hearing. She then brought up Carter and how it had affected him and immediately jumped on a tape she had of his "malaise" speech (which, admittedly, was a really stupid speech, frankly, I've never figured out who in the hell among his advisors ever thought that was a good idea and why they let him make it) and couldn't wait to play it. She then began yapping and harping once again on "don't you think it COULD, though have an affect on Obama". Unbe-fucking-lievable.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Yeah

Gas prices are high under President Obama so don't re-elect him and vote for the party who will make sure it STAYS high and keeps big oil rolling in taxpayer subsidies and the speculation market alive.

[Gold Metal Flake]

21. That is the well-known NPR Liberal Media Bias.

[joeybee12]

8. They are...and they want to pin it on Obama...

The fault lies with those speculating Koch Bros and other scum of their ilk.

[onenote]

9. Not that I've noticed.

Everytime gas prices start going up at an accelerated rate, the media starts talking about it, in my experience. Doesn't seem any different this time.

[Javaman]

11. It's gone up 50 cents in the past 3 1/2 weeks

here in Austin.

that translates to 10 bucks on a 20 gallon tank.

while a huge portion of the population can afford that, many in poverty or below the poverty line can't.

I completely understand what you are saying and I don't believe for one moment that the media cares one wit about the poor, but the poor are being adversely effected by the price rise.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Really?

Here in the soutern reaches of Chicagoland, it went from 3.45, to 3.28, then jumped to 3.49, and then came back down to 3.39. Been that way for a few days.

I wouldn't have guessed that the the trendline would differ regionally. I can see why every region might have different retail pricing, but i still would have expected the trends to be shaped more or less the same.

Odd.

[Javaman]

17. Usually it's a bit cheaper here in Texas than the rest of the nation...

about a month ago it was 2.95. Then the slow creep began.

My gf and I were at Costco yesterday and the price there was 3.57 for non-members.

they tend to run a bit higher, so I drove past my local shell station, which usually has the best price in my neighborhood, the price was 3.48.

I'm back on the bus next week.

[Gold Metal Flake]

22. $4.25 here in SoCal.

Just about 8 miles down the 14 freeway are pumps pulling oil out of the ground. The US is exporting massive amounts of gasoline. But because the Iranians might send an atomic bomb on a missile to destroy Davenport any day now we have no choice but to endure these high prices together. No choice. No investigations, either.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Jumped 18 Cents Yesterday

Between when i left town for work and when i got home! So, maybe our trend line is the same, just lagging or something.

[truebrit71]

12. They are making a HUUUUUGE deal about it, because, despite their D&G things are getting better...

...however marginally, unemployment down, jobless claims down, stock market up, so they have to find SOMETHING to bring Obama down with...

[TwilightGardener]

13. They're downright breathless and excited about it. Never mind that the prices

have been pretty high for the past..what...six years, off and on? Need an election issue, dammit!

[Worried senior]

15. I thought the same

thing. According to the republicans the media is liberal, in my opinion they do everything they can to shore up the republicans and criticize the president.

Maybe it's because they are all owned by conservatives.

They wouldn't dream of blaming the speculators.

[benld74]

18. The MEDIA needs to invistigate WHY, NOT tell us something WE already know!!!

[benld74]

19. OK Media - someone investigated see below Speculators and traders again!!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57383435/high-gas-prices-are-traders-to-blame/

But it appears rising gas prices are mostly due to the work of Wall Street speculators and traders -- not any increase in demand, according to a new report from Yardeni Research.

Since each contract is for 42,000 gallons, or 1,000 barrels, of gas, and gasoline inventories in the U.S. stood at 232 million barrels, "speculators and traders, in effect, held a record 43.8 percent of U.S. inventories," Yardeni says.

The economist says speculators must be betting that the confrontation with Iran will worsen, pushing gas prices still higher. "They certainly can't be betting on strong U.S. demand for gasoline," says Yardeni. Over the past year, gas usage fell to its lowest since Nov. 28, 2003

They're betting on Iran confrontation!!!!!!

[Gold Metal Flake]

23. The bumber stickers in the 1970's told me "CBS is Rather biased"

So there is that liberal media bias again.

"Over the past year, gas usage fell to its lowest since Nov. 28, 2003" And there is that well-known Liberal reality bias.

[Comrade Grumpy]

25. Rising gas prices ARE a big issue.

And you can't really blame the sitting president except to the extent that his Middle East foreign policies are contributing. Yeah, let's have lots of talk about attacking Iran and see what that does to oil prices. Oh, we are seeing what it does.

Gas has gone over the four dollar mark where I live. Up by about 30-40 cents a gallon in the last month.

[part man all 86]

26. Yet President Obama has quadruple oil drilling in three years. Production is up.

Gasoline and oil exports are up. Demand has gone up outside the USA, but that nothing new. It seems to me that greed and fear are the two main driving forces.

[libtodeath]

27. Does anyone think that

the media is not going to do all it can to get President Obama defeated.
They have been an extension of the repuke party ever since they looked the other way on raygun stealing the election in 1980.

[madokie]

29. Our media for the most part is corporate owned

and you know what corporations do. In case you don't know I'll tell you, they protect their own. Thats all this is bullshit warmed over even

[JNathanK]

30. They're making a big issue about a lot of things that aren't important n/t