ABC’s Pictorial Smear of Great Jobs and Unemployment Report
Nah, there’s no media bias (HT Right Moment; also note that all the news under Ronald’s picture is negative):
This reminds me of something blogger Ace of Spades mentioned to me some time ago about how it’s not just the words, it’s the pictures. Seemingly without exception, stories about the economy during the 1990s had images or video of machines producing currency, cash registers ringing, and heavy traffic inside shopping malls. When’s the last time anyone saw any of this in a news report about this very good economy?
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.
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UPDATE: It took until the 20th paragraph of the roughly 25-paragraph report for AP/ABC to tell us about the +139,000 jobs revisions to August and September combined.
UPDATE 2: Pundit Review does a great job of comparing current New York Times’ coverage of the employment situation with that during the 1990s. Guess which decade comes off looking infinitely better?
UPDATE 3: (HT commenter “z ryan” at Ace) — “US Economy’s Latest Output: Better Jobs”
UPDATE 4: Chip Mathis noticed that the Washington Post is running the same pic with its report on the jobs situation.
Washington Post is running the same picture.
Comment by chip — November 5, 2006 @ 5:59 pm
Our Economy, Through the Lens of Non-Partisan Media…
Or, not so much…
Ace is upset that ABC News is running a picture of a hiring sign at McDonald’s alongside a story about the unemployment rate dipping to 4.4%.
How… utterly expected. They simply w……
Trackback by The Chip Mathis Experience — November 5, 2006 @ 6:23 pm
Will they just come out and say that “ABC hates George Bush and support the Democratic Party”? Or are they still claiming to be impartial?
Comment by Dick Nixon — November 5, 2006 @ 7:13 pm