Unemployment Down

Ah, I remember when Unemployment numbers were front page news. Not one single news site or newspaper has the new unemployment numbers on the front page today.

You gotta dig around for the story...here is CNN's.

The unemployment rate fell to 5 percent from 5.1 percent in May, the Labor Department reported, the lowest since a matching reading in September 2001, the month of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Economists had forecast the rate would remain unchanged at 5.1 percent.

But the department's survey of employers showed they added just 146,000 jobs to payrolls in June, up from a revised 104,000 in May. That was well short of the average forecast for a net gain of 195,000 jobs last month, according to economists surveyed by Briefing.com.

Again, not on the front page. But during the campaign all the left, the media and the Democrats would talk about was how bad unemployment was...and that it was getting worse by the minute. Now, we know how hyperbolic the unions and their kind are. But the chart below shows that while they were doing the whining (as the left does so well) in 2004 they were actually lying about unemployment.



So, what does that mean? It means that there is one more reason why the New York Times, Star Tribune and all of the rest should be considered as newsworthy as Batman comic books.

And I STILL laugh at my debate coach, Eric Fuchs, who swore that the New York Times was the least biased of all newspapers; who told me to stop believing the conspiracy theories about media bias. Eric, stick to coaching...your insight on the media is abyssmal.