June 2, 2006
THERE HE GOES, FAVORING MINORITIES AGAIN:
US Unemployment Rate Falls to 4.6 Per Cent (HispanicBusiness.com, Jun 2, 2006)
The US economy added 75,000 new jobs in May and the unemployment rate fell to 4.6 per cent, the Department of Labor reported Friday. [...]Posted by Orrin Judd at June 2, 2006 2:42 PMThe unemployment rate of whites remained steady at 4.1 per cent, but the rates for minorities dropped. The jobless rates for blacks dropped from 9.4 per cent to 8.9 per cent, and the rate for Hispanics fell from 5.4 per cent to 5.0 per cent.
Here's CNN's headline for this (more) economic good news:
"Jobs gains weaker than expected"
Masters of semantics strike again.
Posted by: erp at June 2, 2006 3:59 PMThe AP's is even better..."Weak job growth signals cooling economy"
Posted by: BJW at June 2, 2006 4:02 PMI guess Wall St. must be part of the liberarl media now too because if I'm not mistaken, they also interpreted as weaker than expected. The market opened up day on renewed hopes of slowed growth...
So give the AP and CNN a break...they're reporting the news from the perspective of the people who actually control the economy...not Pres. Bush.
Posted by: Russ at June 3, 2006 2:53 AMRuss, careful what you say. You are dangerously close to apostasy.
The received wisdom of the BDS bunch is that Bushitler McMonkeyHalliburton controls everything for the benefit of the big money boys aka Wall Street/Big Oil/Evil Pharmaceuticals in whose thrall he is and to the detriment of the vast sea of serfs huddled together in fear, marking time, hoping against hope that global warming doesn't get them before Hillary gets a chance to give them the universal healthcare they so desperately need.
You say give the media a break. Our morning paper's Business Section has seven or eight articles on the front page. Every single one of them has a misleadingly negative headline over an article, the body of which refutes the headline.
From whose perspective are these articles written do you think?