The employment figures for September came out this morning. The economy created fewer jobs than expected, and the figure continues to be too low to reduce the numbers of unemployed, under-employed and people who have just given up looking. Indeed, the reported rate of unemployment fell only because more people just gave up hope and stopped looking for work.
So how is this report being portrayed in the media? My favorite is the report of the AP. According to the reporter, the low increase in jobs is the result of the partial government shutdown. Of course, that is a problem since the survey on which the report is based was taken about September 12th and the partial shutdown did not start until October 1st, some three weeks later. That indisputable fact, however, does not stop the AP in its quest to insulate president Obama from any fault here and to assign blame to the Republicans. According to the AP, employers held off hiring in September because they feared that there might be a government shutdown a month later.
You really cannot make this stuff up. Picture the "reality" that the AP claims actually exists. You are now at a restaurant in Denver on September 10th. The owner is telling you that he is swamped every day at lunch and really needs another waiter to keep his customers happy. Then he says that he is worried that in a month, there is a possibility that government employees in Washington might be furloughed for a week or two so he is going to wait on hiring. If you don't like the example, then pretend you are sitting with a software executive who is heading up a project to develop an app for the android phones that will allow people to tie their shoelaces from their phones. He says he needs 5 people to do the design, but then say that he is going to wait before hiring because next month there might be a government shutdown. Really?
Why is it that the mainstream media has to use every possible occasion to defend the failures of Obama and his administration?
So how is this report being portrayed in the media? My favorite is the report of the AP. According to the reporter, the low increase in jobs is the result of the partial government shutdown. Of course, that is a problem since the survey on which the report is based was taken about September 12th and the partial shutdown did not start until October 1st, some three weeks later. That indisputable fact, however, does not stop the AP in its quest to insulate president Obama from any fault here and to assign blame to the Republicans. According to the AP, employers held off hiring in September because they feared that there might be a government shutdown a month later.
You really cannot make this stuff up. Picture the "reality" that the AP claims actually exists. You are now at a restaurant in Denver on September 10th. The owner is telling you that he is swamped every day at lunch and really needs another waiter to keep his customers happy. Then he says that he is worried that in a month, there is a possibility that government employees in Washington might be furloughed for a week or two so he is going to wait on hiring. If you don't like the example, then pretend you are sitting with a software executive who is heading up a project to develop an app for the android phones that will allow people to tie their shoelaces from their phones. He says he needs 5 people to do the design, but then say that he is going to wait before hiring because next month there might be a government shutdown. Really?
Why is it that the mainstream media has to use every possible occasion to defend the failures of Obama and his administration?
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