NPR's Opinion Modification Piece On Perceptions of The Economy
I was just casually listening to NPR as I worked out in the yard and heard a bit on how the public now has a better perception of the state of the economy. It was explained to me that the number of people who thought all things economic are just rosy as hell had gone up by a good margin and that gave sound reason to hope that consumer spending would follow. Unspoken was the supposition that spending will, of course, fix everything. However toward the end they slipped up and came damned close to letting a fact slip out. The Commentator said that 'almost 30% of those surveyed now thought the economy was either good or getting better.' (I use single quotes when I cite from memory) Think about that - 20-something percent say its good so it must be good.
30% seems like a low number in any event, but then it's relative. What were these numbers in the fifth year of the Clinton administration? How do you find that out? They are bound to go down after Katrina.
4. Yup, good 'ol Now Pointedly Republican glosses over the 70+ %.
This morning they were reporting on the hurricane damage and instead of having the Mississippi Gov. or the Louisiana Gov. they went to Jeb Bush for answers.
Does that kind of journalism just simply wash off or does it take an SOS pad and a lot of blood and grunting?
their hall monitors to make sure the administration's talking points would get airplay and all dissenting opinion would be muffled. NPR is now a part of the fascist Bush media conglomerate. They're no longer relevant to me. And, there are now alternatives. The right has achieved another of their goals -- the banishment of public radio as a source of in-depth news.
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