Rich kid admissions scandal shows walloping corporate media double standard

I went to Stanford, back when the odds of getting in were a lot shorter. I doubt they’d let my sorry butt near the place, now. Anyway, what most strikes me about the admissions scandal that broke yesterday is the play it's getting in corporate media. Front page headlines, top of the newscasts. They know it’s a good hook.

Just because a handful of B (at best) list celebrities are involved? I don’t think so. They know damn well the public is sick of being screwed over by the rich man/woman, and this is a chance to play into that.

But when you get into wealth and politics, they’re a whole lot less eager to tell it like it is. How often does the wealth of Congress - and therefore the fact that a large majority thereof, especially in the Senate, from both parties, have little incentive to really change a status quo that has been very good for them - make big headlines? And that affects most people’s lives a lot more than who gets into Stanford or Yale.

Of course plenty of people are giving the plutocracy the attention it deserves, on progressive websites and in books. (Here's a relevant item I happen to have ready to hand.) But those are still not where most people get their information.