Media myopia.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Payroll taxes - Editorial - Brief article

During the Democratic debate at St. Anselm College, Charles Gibson, the moderator, expressed his concerns at proposals by Barack Obama and John Edwards to raise the cap on payroll taxes on income above $100,000. Won't that hurt you St. Anselm professors who are married and whose combined income is more than $200,000? asked Gibson. The professors in the audience laughed. Obviously, not a lot of them made $100,000. Gibson, hearing the laughter, suggested that many New York City schoolteachers made more than $100,000. Again, he was wrong, which illustrates one of my favorite points, which is that media heavyweights make so much money that they have lost touch with the reality lived by most Americans--80 percent of...