[Mike Darancette]

Was it ever so. There are recurring talking points in the way the mainstream media handles things.

Under a Republican Administration when unemployment numbers go down it is because people have become discouraged and left the job market (to become homeless I guess) and when numbers go up it because the jobs have been lost permanently.

Starting in Jan., 1981 (Reagan years) homelessness became a huge problem with ever larger (and unfounded) estimates of the numbers being reported, This lasted until the magic day when Clinton was sworn into office. It started again when the Republicans took office in 2001.

[wny]

Here in Rochester, NY, the local paper is a left-wing rag. The business section is a couple of pages at the back of the sports section. The news of the rise, significantrise mind you, in consumer confidence was on the "front page" of the business section (the last page of sports). Fair enough. But back a few months when consumer confidence dipped, it was on the front page, above the fold, of the main section. Hide the good news, highlight the bad news. Unless of course it's a dem in office.