October 01, 2009

Adventures in Media Bias



What makes for Bad news and or Good news about the recession (depression?). It only matters who is in the White House. If its a Democrat look for the bad news to be shed in the most positive of light! If it is a Republican, it is all bad and going to get worse!

Unemployment is currently at a 26-year-high of 9.7 percent and expected to continue rising. The last president to govern with such high unemployment was President Ronald Reagan.

But in 1982, when unemployment was rising similarly to the way it has in 2009 the network news media were merciless quoting attacks from Democrats, union leaders and the unemployed to attack Reagan's "sadistic" fiscal policies.

2009 was a different story, for a different president. Even though unemployment has shot up from 8.1 percent since February, network reporters looked for "hopeful signs" of an economic turnaround in their jobs report.


It is really no wonder that the viewer ship of several seemingly state run media outlets has fallen?

1 comment:

flyingvan said...

If GWB had taken his entourage to Europe at a cost of $10,000,000 to taxpayers, to bro up some Texas community, you think the MSM woulda had something to say about it?