Our media is now just rich people interviewing each other
Peter Eleftherios Baker is an American journalist and author. He is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC. His net worth is estimated to be well over $1 million.
Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor, and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C. She married her second husband, then Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, on April 6, 1997, following a lengthy relationship. Her personal net worth is estimated at over $8 million.
This is what passes for “analysis” in the United States:
Andrea Mitchell: Peter Baker, is the congressional Democratic Party just too liberal for the country?
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Andrea Mitchell
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Is a net worth of $8MM considered rich?
That was an online source. I’m sure both of these twits are worth well more millions than $1 & $8
But, yes. $8 million is wealthy by any standard measure. They certainly aren’t the lunch-bucket toting working class Joe’s they imagine they are sticking up for when they say Democrats are too liberal.
Working a 40 hour/week job at $15/hr for 30 years with no time off yields a grand total of $936,000, so yes, $1million is rich.
In the US in 2020 the average household net worth was approximately $750,000. With the appreciation of financial assets and real estate since 2020 that brings the average closer to the rich $1 million mark. If the average household can be considered rich that should be considered a positive development.
If the average household can be considered rich that should be considered a positive development….is what a dick would say.
Averages of $750,000 don’t mean much when you have outliers that include billionaires. So we need to know more about the sample statistics to make heads or tails of this assertion. If nothing else, give us the median home net-worth and you’ll likely find it closer to $100,000 (and that includes non-liquid assets like cars and homes that can’t simply be sold to buy a new 85-inch OLED television.)
Not engaging with the actual point of the post, but nit-picking some stat is typical troll shit. Is he trying to say Peter Eleftherios Baker isn’t wealthy? No. Is he trying to say that this isn’t two rich people beating each other off on Sunday TV? No.
I’d simply ignore that twat going forward.