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November 03, 2006
Reuters reports mentions good economic news in story congratulating itself for helping make sure voters didn't know about good economic news
Reuters congratulates itself Dems on Reuters' Dems' successful strategy to make Iraq the only issue that has mattered this fall. "The war has dominated the news," says the WH budget director, seemingly with exasperation, "so when the economy gets better, as it has in the last six months and you have good numbers to show, we can't get that through."
Wonder why that might be the case.
Anyway, the story goes on to point out things Reuters never reports, like: "Nearly 4 million jobs have been created in the past two years, the unemployment rate is at a 5-year-low, the Dow Jones industrial average is near a record high and wages are finally growing faster than inflation." And stuff like that.
Posted by bill at November 3, 2006 01:40 PM
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It is interesting that Reuters is making the Iraq war its justification as to why the Democrats faired so well last night. This is interesting because most of the other major media outlets (CNN and MSNBC in particular) claimed on numerous occasions last night that Americans voted based on "Corruption, Terrorism, Economy, and Iraq" and in that order. Again proving that media actually has no idea what the American people are voting based on or what the American people really care about because initial article states, I think the economy is pretty good.
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at November 8, 2006 10:50 AM
Why did the media abandon their endless repetition of Clinton's "It's the economy, stupid" when the economy is doing so well under the GOP?
To ask the question is to answer it.
Posted by: Raygun at November 8, 2006 01:50 PM
Keep up the good work of blaming the media. I hope its working for you.
Posted by: joloco at November 8, 2006 05:45 PM
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