How Reuters Reports Good Economic News
Our economy is rolling. Since August of 2003 6.6 million jobs have been added to the economy. In the last twelve months alone we’ve added 1.7 million jobs. For the last 37 months, that’s three years and one month, we’ve added jobs every single month. The most recent jobs report has us adding 51,000 jobs to the economy in September.
How does Reuters choose to report this?
Despite jobs report?
The implication from the headline is that the recent jobs report somehow counters Bush’s positive words about the economy. What rationale is the reporter in this article using? This passage from the article gives us a clue:
President George W. Bush declared himself pleased on Friday with U.S. economic progress despite a Labor Department report that said U.S. employers added only 51,000 jobs in September.
So, because the economy didn’t add as many jobs as this reporter apparently thought we should have added the jobs report itself counters Bush’s positive view of the economy.
Media bias? What media bias?
