Hi Steven, well, I may have been tweaking you just a bit there. But here was my though process...You made the following comment regarding the Rush media rant on the economy.
res- Of course the Democrats are trying to make the economy look worse than it is, just like the Republicans are trying to make it look better than it is.
Now, think about this. What view is the mainstream press giving us of the economy? Rush's point was even in Europe the view is positive while the predominat view on American television is negative.
Let me see if I can find an mrc transcript to back this up....
Ah, I hadn't read mrc in a couple of weeks, and two clicks into I discover this.
But I'll take your point regarding alternate media. So I'll put it this way instead. CBS, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CNN, N.Y. Times, Boston Globe, WA Post, LA Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, USNews and World Report, and just about every local news program is pro-democrat in their economic news reporting. Will that suffice Steven? (Oops, left out PBS radio which is heard in all 50 states and around the world on armed forces radio networks).
Now, how about you give me your list and we'll do a comparative analysis on population viewership and news influence?
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CBS Emphasizes the Negative in Declining
Unemployment Numbers
mediaresearch.org
Emphasizing the negative. Dan Rather opened Friday’s CBS Evening News by kvetching: “Not a va-room, but a putt, putt, putt. Tonight, America’s economic engine creates some new jobs, but not nearly enough to replace the thousands lost.”
Rather set up two stories on the subject: “It is growing, but the U.S. economy isn’t producing enough jobs. At least not yet. The government’s official figures out today say unemployment in January was running 5.6 percent. While that is down a bit, the decline is largely the result of workers’ giving up on finding a job and no longer officially listed as unemployed. The economy created some new jobs in January -- about 112,000. But economists say that is below predictions and expectations and not nearly enough to meet demand.”
On the upbeat side, Anthony Mason looked at a Massachusetts-based Internet services company that is doing well and plans to hire, yet Mason ended on a downer as he pointed out that the number of people looking for jobs exceeds the number of openings: “Unemployment may be dropping, but this economy is still awash in resumes.”
Then Cynthia Bowers provided an all negative story pegged to the closing of a refrigerator plant in Greenville, Michigan. |
