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MSNBC's All In Reports On Devastating Food Stamp Cuts Rest Of The Media Is Ignoring

Members of our media and Congress have been ignoring for the most part, the devastating cuts to SNAP that are about to take place this week, but one show, All In on MSNBC with Chris Hayes, is thankfully not ignoring them.

As Karoli noted in her rant this week, we've got the corporate media for the most part out there breathlessly reporting on the failures of the web site for the rollout of "Obamacare" and Congress wasting our time with more witch hunts, and what are they ignoring? Devastating cuts to the food stamp (otherwise known as SNAP) program.

Media Matters did a report on the lack of media coverage on those cuts which are about to take place Nov. 1st, and the damage and negative impact they're going to have on our economy: REPORT: The Food Stamp Cuts The Media Won't Tell You About.

As they've discussed in other reporting as well, what coverage we have had from the likes of Fox and their ilk has been dishonest B.S. like this, and this doesn't even begin to nibble at the sheer volume of attacks on the working poor that are leveled on that network, week after week, month after month on their so-called "business block" every Saturday morning. It's a literal cesspool of this type of garbage and worse: Fox's Shameless Misrepresentation Of SNAP Recipients.

Chris Hayes and his guests gave us what we rarely see in the media these days, an honest look at and discussion on the devastating impact these cuts are going to have on real people's lives who are hanging on by a thread and cannot afford to have their services cut any more. They also talked about the underlying problems, such as a lack of jobs and that we need a national dialog right NOW on getting Americans back to work and on ending hunger in America.

You can read more about the report in the video above here: America’s new hunger crisis. Hayes and his panel discussion on the subject are below the fold.

bootstraps by whatever means necessary. It's long past time these people were shown the door.
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