Media fear mongering


When good news becomes "bad"
Dan Gainor takes on "Boo-Hoo Economics."

According to the American Research Group, the public is split over the notion that we’re in a recession. It’s no wonder almost half of the American public thinks things are bad, because most people only know what they’re told. For 43 percent of the population to believe something so wrongheaded, there can be only one culprit – the major media. Journalists describe the economy as “strong, but with serious weaknesses” when they are being positive or focus on the “housing bubble” bursting instead of dwelling on the 55 percent gains home prices have made since 2000. They’ve even discussed a possible recession.

CNN reporter Soledad O’Brien described her view of the economy on the December 5 “American Morning,” that “how Americans are feeling, frankly … is scared. I mean, the war goes on, I look at my heating bill. It may be triple what it was last year.”

Of course Americans are scared. Why? Because the media have been telling them to be scared. In the December 4 “This Week,” columnist George Will said there were two reasons for bad media coverage including the media’s insistence that “All economic news is bad.”

I've said it before. If a Democrat President had produced this kind of economy during a war, in the aftermath of a hurricane, and in the wake of 9-11, they would be called a miracle worker.

It's not that I think that George Bush can do no wrong. No, what bothers me is that all of this would be called good news if Mr. Bush wasn't a Republican. And that I think waters down all criticism of the President.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - December 23, 2005 at 05:14 AM  Tag


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