[finnman69]

It will be like how homelessness all of a sudden became an issue again when W became President. Prez Hillary would usher in global warming all of the time

http://www.mediaresearch.org/press/2001/press20010215.asp

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With The Return Of A Conservative President …

MEDIA REDISCOVER HOMELESSNESS

"ABC News Has Signaled The Networks Will Continue To Push An Anti-Conservative Agenda During The Bush Years"

ALEXANDRIA, Va. --- During the more conservative Reagan and Bush presidencies through the '80s and early '90s the media played up the issue of homelessness and blamed those administrations for the problem. Then, during the liberal Clinton presidency, the media pushed the issue to the back burner. Now with the return of a conservative president, barely three weeks into President George W. Bush's new administration, the media are trying to make homelessness a top issue once again. ABC News ran the first story earlier this week after eight years of a homeless hiatus. Below are contrasted the number of network news homeless stories run during the first Bush Administration and the Clinton Administration.

Bush Administration Homeless Stories (Total for 4 years: 212 stories)

Clinton Administration Homeless Stories (Total for 8 years: 132 stories)

1989 1990 1991 1992

44 71 54 43

1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000

35 32   9   8 10   4 20 14

   "The numbers clearly demonstrate the networks have a definite anti-conservative agenda in pushing the homeless story. ABC News has signaled the networks will continue to push this anti-conservative agenda during the Bush years," said Media Research Center President Brent Bozell.

[gleeaikin]

Media Rediscovers Homelessness

Do you have any statistics on the actual rates of homelessness during those years, and several years after the end of the Clinton administration. If democrats are actually more concerned with homelessness, then a couple of years after Clinton came into office there should have been a decrease. On the other hand, a Republican Congress, and/or the welfare reform push could have had some influence. Dates for these influences and the actual statistics would be very interesting to see.