Posted on 01/07/2006 8:14:50 AM PST by nwrep
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Cool. Let's see the WP side by side comparison. Where's their report from yesterday?
A bunch of guys sitting around in their pajamas don't have a clue about the economy. (choke, choke)
They are shameless. Liberals used to say such unemployment numbers were unattainable. They were wrong. The truth is the unemployment for adults has been under 5% for sometime but the media is constantly straining for the fly in the soup.
good catch
ping
In all fairness, it is not so bad. I will get a link for you, if possible. The main culprits are the TV networks and AP/Reuters/NYT.
That is grat work. I bet there are reams of articles showing their bias from the 90's.
Excellent work digging this up...
Good example of MSM bias.
If you can email this to some newspaper/cable stations.
That's because for many libs, the world began on Jan 20, 2001. Libs reflexively attack Bush without considering their past words and actions. It often comes back to bite them in their hindquarters.
Ping.
If anyone can find a link, it would be much appreciated.
Suspect you all may want to make note of this thread for your armory.
Thanks MNJohnnie!
If you wanted to spend the time you can find the same sort of crap from the Reagan Era. In College I worked as a Research Assistant and it was just STUNNING to compare some of the stuff I read about Reagan with the stuff you could see in the Clinton Media.
Sadly, it's been that way for longer than that. In college, a dozen years before Reagan, I did a report on the inconsistencies between Time and Newsweek on a specific current event. Neither agreed with the facts and both misrepresented the events as well as the probable outcome and effects of it.
IF the MSM reversed thier positions today, it would expose them for their past poor reporting and editorializing. They won't do it and they are scared to death that too many people will learn the truth. They don't realize they cannot stop the exposure. The numbers of viewers and readers are down and their stock is falling. In light of all that, they still cannot bring themselves to change.
Just a thought.
It doesn't seem to have ocurred to the talking heads that it isn't about the "jobs" it's about the quality of them. It's like yelling - look at all the beads we made, while pointing at a bin of plastic junk and while everyone is looking for pearls, silver, gold, and precious stones. The plastic is hailed for being a presence of beads and thusly a strong bead presence. Strong bead presence means Strong economy.. really.
One reminds oneself that a job is worth what the market says it's worth.. until, one understands that the Corporatists didn't like that way of doing things and so offshored to drive wages down because evidently, wages as provided by the market were too high.. Now that they've knocked $15 dollar an hour jobs down to 8 or 9, we're told that market forces determined that. But, undermining the market makes for a strong bead market.. look at all the plastic.
With workers now on the ropes instead of having a fair chance in the fight, now big companies have redefined "fulltime" employment to get around paying benefits.
Corporations continue cutting bonuses and pay to pay themselves divedends on greater and greater scales. It's apparent that average people trying to work for a living are just dupes to be harvested for what people can squeeze out of them, all while marvelling over the plastic.
Apparently, it isn't about the reality. It's about the reality one can paint. Both sides are arguing over the wrong thing and both are po'd that nobody is buying either of their estimates of what the reality is. One would think that would give them pause to shut up and get with the program. Instead, they just get even more insistant. Meanwhile, Average Americans don't need political opinions to inform them of what's going on around them - they're in it. The politicos are not. They're simply trying to pull the matrix down over everyone's eyes, IMO. Afterall, look at all the plastic.
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