Tuesday, July 12, 2011
"Pro-Obama media always shocked by bad economic news"
This article is spot on.
The word "unexpectedly" appears frequently in economic headlines.
Aside from the frequent use of the word, what is really frightening is that supposedly knowledgeable experts apparently have no clue about the basis for their predictions...
The word "unexpectedly" appears frequently in economic headlines.
Aside from the frequent use of the word, what is really frightening is that supposedly knowledgeable experts apparently have no clue about the basis for their predictions...
Michael Barone recently wrote about it at WashingtonExaminer.com:
"As Instapundit reader Gordon Stewart, quoted by Reynolds on May 17, put it, 'How many times in a row can something happen unexpectedly before the experts start to, you know, expect it? At some point, shouldn't they be required to state the foundation for their expectations?'
One answer is that many in the mainstream media have been cheerleading for Barack Obama. They and he both naturally hope for a strong economic recovery. After all, Obama can't keep blaming the economic doldrums on George W. Bush forever.
I'm confident that any comparison of economic coverage in the Bush years and the coverage now would show far fewer variants of the word 'unexpectedly' in stories suggesting economic doldrums."
