Over a combined total of nine and a half hours of programming, CBS, NBC
and ABC allowed a mere 72 seconds of coverage to the news, Monday, that
Social Security will go bankrupt three years earlier than previously
expected. ABC's World News and NBC's Nightly News
skipped the subject entirely. The same networks that offered copious
amounts of stories to a vague threat of future global warming disaster,
found little interest in the coming problems of Social Security.
Scott Pelley briefly explained on Monday's Evening News:
"Medicare will run out of money in 2024. Social Security retirement
benefits run out in 2035. But Social Security disability benefits will
be exhausted long before that, in 2016."
Read the full story at: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/looming-threat-social-security-implosion-results-just-72-seconds-network-coverage
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