Reuters - Glenn Sommers - Bad Headline
This is the Headline: Job growth below expectations in December
This was the story:
The Labor Department said the unemployment rate fell to 4.9 percent from 5 percent in November. During the full year 2005, payrolls grew by nearly 2.2 million new jobs.
While the December total of new jobs came in well under forecasts for 200,000, it came with an upwardly revised 305,000 new jobs in November — the strongest hiring since April 2004 — instead of 215,000 the department reported a month ago.
The unemployment rate is 4.9 percent. Not in my memory at least, can I remember that the rate has ever been 4.9 percent. This is a rate most European countries would give a pant load for and yet it hardly rates to be the headline.
God forbid, that Glenn Sommers would headline his articles with something that reflected the good/true news on the economy. That must be against policy at Reuters.
Read the entire article and you will notice that the majority of the article is of good news. Good news of the economy that the MSM is trying hard to subdue. Also notice a couple jabs that just had to be put in, to make I guess what Reuters considers an attempt to be ”Fair and Balanced”. Would not want to let the news be too good.
UPDATE: Over at Ankle Biting Pundits, they have an example of the same bias surprisingly, at The New York/DNC Times. Check it out.