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To: Sully- who wrote (65106)	3/27/2008 12:36:47 PM
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AP Math: 0.6% Rise is 'Feeble', 0.6% Decline is 'Plunge' By Noel Sheppard NewsBusters.org March 27, 2008 - 10:03 ET Want an even clearer picture of how media are intentionally reporting economic data in a way that makes the public feel things are much worse than they are? Consider the different adjectives the good folks at the Associated Press use to describe a 0.6 percent change depending on whether or not it's an increase or a decrease. As reported by NewsBusters two weeks ago, when the Commerce Department announced that retail sales for February had declined by 0.6 percent, the Associated Press declared that a "plunge." Yet, when the Gross Domestic Product grows by a similar amount, the AP reports it as "feeble": <<< The Commerce Department reported Thursday that gross domestic product increased at a feeble 0.6 percent annual rate in the October-to-December quarter. The reading -- unchanged from a previous estimate a month ago -- provided stark evidence of just how much the economy has weakened. In the prior quarter, the economy clocked in at a sizzling 4.9 percent growth rate. >>> How do these people look at themselves in the mirror each morning? newsbusters.org