Media Suddenly Muted on Jobless Claims …
| Last Thursday morning, the headlines on National Public Radio were jubilant. “Jobless Claims Drop To Lowest Level In More Than Four Years,” they crowed. NPR’s anchors repeated the news in their hourly and half-hourly updates. The sudden, seasonally-adjusted drop–from 369,000 to 339,000 new claims–was touted by NPR and the rest of the mainstream media as timely evidence of economic recovery under President Barack Obama.
This week, jobless claims have soared to 388,000–a four-month high. But did NPR bother to revisit its cheerleading from the week before, or did it try to imply broader conclusions about the direction of the economy under Obama? http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/10/18/Media-Suddenly-Muted-on-Jobless-Claims |
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