NY Times Headline: World Ends, Hispanics, Blacks (But Not Asians?) Hardest Hit
Showing the New York Times's reputation for knee-jerk liberalism has a long pedigree, veteran comic Mort Sahl had a joke about a hypothetical Times headline after nuclear Armageddon: "World Ends, Women & Minorities Hardest Hit."
Enter Tuesday’s off-lead headline, under a story by Sabrina Tavernise: “Recession Study Finds Hispanics Are Hit Hardest – Sharp Wealth Decline - Group’s Median Level Fell 66% in 4 Years – Blacks Hit, Too.”
Hispanic families accounted for the largest single decline in wealth of any ethnic and racial group in the country during the recession, according to a study published Tuesday by the Pew Foundation.
The study, which used data collected by the Census Bureau, found that the median wealth of Hispanic households fell by 66 percent from 2005 to 2009. By contrast, the median wealth of whites fell by just 16 percent over the same period. African Americans saw their wealth drop by 53 percent. Asians also saw a big decline, with household wealth dropping 54 percent.
So why were Asians left out of the headline? Their median wealth actually fell slightly further than did that of blacks.
This is far from the first time the paper has approached Sahl’s headline parody. Here’s a July 4, 2003 front-page headline stack: “U.S. Jobless Rate Increases To 6.4%, Highest in 9 Years -- 30,000 Jobs Lost In June -- Figures Defy Some Predictions of an Economic Revival -- Blacks Fare Worst.”
A May 13, 2009 headline: “Homeownership Losses Are Greatest Among Minorities, Report Finds.”
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A self Fullfilling Prophesy......
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 3:48pm.
Fullfilled at least in part with help from the NYT
Numbers can support any argument*
Submitted by cajun2 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 3:53pm.
This from the 2010 Census.
Population of US........308,745,538
% of population by race
white...72%
blacks..12%
Native American/alaskan/Hawaiian....1.1%
Hispanic/Latino....16%
Asian....4.8%
Now here are some numbers of interest regarding entitlements by race/population %
white....36%
blacks..37%
Native Am...35%
Hispanics..27%
Asians....1%
Only 1% of the Asian population in this country are dependent upon the government. Thereby making them very poor candidates for spewing bias by the libs/progressives.
Blacks and hispanics' assets were largely tied up in home equity
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 4:30pm.
When they lost their homes (purchased with loans that they never should have qualified for) to foreclosure, they lost most of their wealth.
Uh, Mort? You're ripping off from Rush Limbaugh!
Submitted by Slyrr on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 4:34pm.
This isn't a new joke. Rush Limbaugh has been telling it on his show for over ten years. I recall hearing at LEAST that far back, Rush Limbaugh reading monologues mocking the NYT and other liberal media for their predictable, boring and hopelessly liberal bias in each and every story. I've heard him recount dozens of times over the years about how if God announced the end of the world, the NYT would run the headline: 'World ends tomorrow - woman and minorities hardest hit!'
Once again, the mainstream media, and their entertainers, are shown to be trailing FAR behind El Rushbo. Is it any wonder that one of Rush's oft-repeated quips is that he's 'show prep for the rest of the media'? And that he 'does the work the mainstream media USED to do'?
Way to show up over 10 years late there, Morty-baby.
'Hear about it on the EIB today - read about it in the papers - tomorrow!'