The newspaper articles started a few weeks back, but now it's beginning to snowball. The mainstream press's word on the street is that everybody's worst fears did not materialize and that welfare reform worked. To support their position, they've included testimonials of a dozen or so people who have "made it."
I don't argue that finding work to support your family is the better option, but the shows are slanting the stories and someone needs to make sure that everyone gets a chance to tell their own story. I have seen this pattern before of accentuating the positive and downplaying or ignoring the negative. We all have. It comes from the CEO PR handbook that this administration has been using since it came into office. The PR strategy only worked for them in the short run when they got us into Iraq but now we're dealing with a host of problems that we didn't consider before. The same thing is going to happen if we allow the pundits to continue telling one side of the story regarding welfare reform. It's dishonest reporting.
To see the other side, go to this incredible thread that will tell you what they've missed and why we need to give this topic more attention:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1960202We need a Spike Lee or Michael Moore to come in and make a movie, not just to tell the story of the side we're reading in the above thread, but to also make a movie about all these shows and newspapers that are slanting the right's position on welfare reform. This is extremely harmful because this one-sided reporting will accelerate the Republican's division of the classes.
This is why the poor get poorer and the rich get richer during Republican Administrations. They continue to believe that they don't have to think about the poor people they are exploiting because the slanted reports on welfare reform proves the poor can fend for themselves during these hard times. Republicans don't deserve that kind of peace of mind.