Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Media - Non-reporting the great economy
Read the statistics and you'll know the economy is smoking hot.
Look around at the new houses, home improvement additions, busy shopping centers, new cars, full restaurants, etc., and you know the economy is on a roll.
But, listen to the media and you'll think the sky is about to fall, and we are bordering on recession.
I strongly suspect the media's persistent bias will be viewed historically as one of the great injustices of our time...
Look around at the new houses, home improvement additions, busy shopping centers, new cars, full restaurants, etc., and you know the economy is on a roll.
But, listen to the media and you'll think the sky is about to fall, and we are bordering on recession.
I strongly suspect the media's persistent bias will be viewed historically as one of the great injustices of our time...
At Real Clear Politics, Noel Sheppard discusses the media coverage of the economy:
"The big economic news going into the weekend was the strongest quarterly gross domestic product growth since the summer of 2003. Spectacular news by any measure, but you wouldn't know it from the way the media reported it."
