July 31, 2009
Bias?
Call me a partisan hack, but I don't remember stories like this when that feller from Texas was living in the White House:
Recession eases; GDP dip smaller than expectedWASHINGTON – The economy sank at a pace of just 1 percent in the second quarter of the year, a new government report shows. It was a better-than-expected showing that provided the strongest signal yet that the longest recession since World War II is finally winding down.
Happy Days are freakin' here again, eh? Media and Blogging Posted by John Kranz at July 31, 2009 10:09 AM
Yup, you may recall that I've been pointing out that Aversa and Crutsinger are the AP's perma-bears...but only if a Republican is president. While Bush was in office, the AP's editors would whitewash stories that originally weren't pessimistic.
If this were a year ago, and especially during an election year, the story would have been:
Posted by: Perry Eidelbus at July 31, 2009 12:51 PMAmen -- plus some casualty figures from Iraq.
Posted by: jk at July 31, 2009 3:15 PMThat reminds me -- the military, I was reading somewhere, has a new policy of not reporting Afghani enemy deaths?
Some days you just can't win, even if you really are.
Posted by: Perry Eidelbus at July 31, 2009 4:48 PM | What do you think? [3]