Our media stinks
So, how many of you took the last few week’s news about better unemployment figures to heart? How many of you would be disappointed to hear its just another failure of our media to report the real state of the nation? How many would be dismayed that even our President is promulgating entirely misleading figures — and the thing is, he knows better. So does the media, but they’re a lost cause already. It dismays me no end that our President would go on TV to brag that our unemployment claims dropped by about 303,000, knowing full well this merely means those 303,000 people have used up their benefits. That’s right, the “good news” is that there are now another 303,000 people without any source of income whatsoever. These figures will all be adjusted when phone surveys are conducted, but by then I’m not sure who will be listening. Why doesn’t the news report that IRS collections so far this fiscal year are running 33% less than last year, and 37% less than predicted?
