Monday, January 23, 2006
Low Jobless Numbers Ignored
Let's be fair. Good news deserves equal time...
No surprise here: Major Newspapers Ignore Low Jobless Numbers:
"Jobless claims hit a five-year low in mid-January according to figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on January 19. But while Bloomberg and Reuters reported the news in full articles, The New York Times buried the item at the bottom of a Business Day report on housing starts. The Washington Post relegated the news to one sentence in an Associated Press business brief, and USA Today ignored the story altogether – although the day before, those same papers hyped a five-year high in the overall inflation rate."
