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First of all HERE is what the general population thinks about the credibility of the MSM.
The American people seem to be catching on to the fact that the mainstream news can no longer be trusted.
A 2017 Gallup/Knight Poll on media trust showed that only 44% of respondents thought they could name one objective news source. And 65% believed that bias in the reporting of news is a major problem.
Nearly 60% don’t believe the media does enough investigative reporting to uncover certain facts.
Mainstream Media’s Credibility Problem Is of Their Own Making
So here is the headline to grab attention BUT when you read further...which many people DON"T do but then
they form their uninformed opinions based on FALSE headlines...
US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show
Now here are the FACTS:
But the average is skewed by outliers, particularly the tech companies, where the CEO founders may own large chunks of the company but not take home much in compensation, relatively speaking.
Amazon’s boss, Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, took home $1.7m in 2017
while the average Amazon worker earned $28,446 - a ratio of 59-to-one.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s compensation was $8.8m in 2017 while his well paid workforce earned an average of $240,430 – a ratio of 37-to-one.
But neither man is waiting on his monthly paycheck.
Bezos’s personal fortune now tops $154bn while Zuckerberg’s is close to $66bn, according to Forbes.
US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show
Now remember the above BIASED capitalism hating publication USED how many companies to come up with that ratio of 312 times...?
The chief executives of America’s top 350 companies earned 312 times more than their workers on average last year"
350 TOP companies... really? How many companies are there in the USA? 18,204,679!
And this BIASED MSM example used 1/1,000s of 1%!
How Many Businesses In The USA | DMDatabases
What is the reality of CEO pay to the average worker?
New BLS data show that for all ‘chief executives,’ the ‘average CEO-to-average worker pay ratio’ is less than 5-to-1
” In 2015, the BLS reports that the average pay for America’s 238,940 chief executives was only $185,850.
Looking at a smaller group of “chief executives,” who according to the BLS manage “companies and enterprises” (a group that is more comparable to the S&P500 CEOs than all “chief executives”), the 20,620 CEOs in that category earned an average salary last year of $220,700
New BLS data show that for all ‘chief executives,’ the ‘average CEO-to-average worker pay ratio’ is less than 5-to-1 - AEI
So NOW do you see why millions of people LIKE me have a great deal of skepticism when we read the MSM?
The American people seem to be catching on to the fact that the mainstream news can no longer be trusted.
A 2017 Gallup/Knight Poll on media trust showed that only 44% of respondents thought they could name one objective news source. And 65% believed that bias in the reporting of news is a major problem.
Nearly 60% don’t believe the media does enough investigative reporting to uncover certain facts.
Mainstream Media’s Credibility Problem Is of Their Own Making
So here is the headline to grab attention BUT when you read further...which many people DON"T do but then
they form their uninformed opinions based on FALSE headlines...
US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show
Now here are the FACTS:
But the average is skewed by outliers, particularly the tech companies, where the CEO founders may own large chunks of the company but not take home much in compensation, relatively speaking.
Amazon’s boss, Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, took home $1.7m in 2017
while the average Amazon worker earned $28,446 - a ratio of 59-to-one.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s compensation was $8.8m in 2017 while his well paid workforce earned an average of $240,430 – a ratio of 37-to-one.
But neither man is waiting on his monthly paycheck.
Bezos’s personal fortune now tops $154bn while Zuckerberg’s is close to $66bn, according to Forbes.
US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show
Now remember the above BIASED capitalism hating publication USED how many companies to come up with that ratio of 312 times...?
The chief executives of America’s top 350 companies earned 312 times more than their workers on average last year"
350 TOP companies... really? How many companies are there in the USA? 18,204,679!
And this BIASED MSM example used 1/1,000s of 1%!
How Many Businesses In The USA | DMDatabases
What is the reality of CEO pay to the average worker?
New BLS data show that for all ‘chief executives,’ the ‘average CEO-to-average worker pay ratio’ is less than 5-to-1
” In 2015, the BLS reports that the average pay for America’s 238,940 chief executives was only $185,850.
Looking at a smaller group of “chief executives,” who according to the BLS manage “companies and enterprises” (a group that is more comparable to the S&P500 CEOs than all “chief executives”), the 20,620 CEOs in that category earned an average salary last year of $220,700
New BLS data show that for all ‘chief executives,’ the ‘average CEO-to-average worker pay ratio’ is less than 5-to-1 - AEI
So NOW do you see why millions of people LIKE me have a great deal of skepticism when we read the MSM?