BMI’s Seymour: Reagan Treated 13 Times More Negatively on Jobs Than Obama

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October 5, 2009 - 16:43 ET
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BMI's Julia A. Seymour appeared on FNC's "America's News Headquarters" to discuss her latest report, "Networks Flip Flop on Jobs."

During Seymour's Oct. 4 appearance, she told host Shannon Bream some of the findings of her report.

"Let's talk about who was the president 26 years ago, Ronald Reagan. So how were his unemployment numbers, or what happened under his watch covered as compared to how we see them being covered now under President Obama?" Bream asked.

"Unemployment stories under President Ronald Reagan were covered 13 times more negatively than President Obama. It actually broke down to 91 percent of mentions, under the Reagan White House in unemployment stories, were negative. And only seven percent of mentions of the Obama administration in 2009 were negative," Seymour said.

Seymour also shared the dramatic example of Charles Gibson's coverage of 9.4 percent unemployment in both 1982 and 2009. See video of Gibson then and now.

 


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Heh

October 5, 2009 - 16:53 ET by Thoreau

What does employment matter when you are working for the Federal government and paying yourself for the privilege.  I'd like them to calculate the Communist in Chief's aquisitions into the equation.

Worse than porn

October 5, 2009 - 17:02 ET by changein2012

   I used to watch the alphabet networks and used the excuse, "I need to know what the enemy is up to." I now consider watching these frauds akin to buying porn. I cannot in good conscience give them ratings they do not deserve. Although I must admit I may be giving porn a bad name.

It's just too bad that no

October 5, 2009 - 18:24 ET by tsscls

It's just too bad that no modern day Reagan has emerged (as of yet) to lead us out of this mess.  I guess we still have 2 years to go before the primary battles begin, but I'm not hopeful. 

tss... I am. This is

October 5, 2009 - 18:45 ET by bigtimer

tss...

I am.

This is the time for real hope and change....thanks to the SCM, the dems, this congress and O's administration...we've got a great chance for a real conservative to get in and win.

'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart

I hope your right and admire

October 5, 2009 - 19:21 ET by tsscls

I hope your right and admire your optimism.  I'm waiting to be dazzled, and continue to keep (real) hope alive.

We'll have to watch and see

October 6, 2009 - 08:27 ET by jon_torlin

I think the modern day "Reagan" is Sarah Palin and here's why I say so:

She easily qualifies for that statement that Reagan used to say "I didn't leave the Democratic Party, they left me."  In Palin's case: "I didn't leave the Republican Party, they left me."

Reagan was a governor, so was Palin.

Reagan was charming, and we know Palin's got charm in spades.

Reagan had an enormous amount of optimism, and we know Palin does as well.

There are other points, but those are the ones that I can think of that stand out.

I suspect in the end(and I don't mean the end of our world), she might decide to step up.  And I bet she will be a huge hit.

Just hoping.

-Jon

 

Reagan???

October 5, 2009 - 20:50 ET by pbthinker

It seems to me I can remember Bush adding jobs and those jobs not being enough for the MSM.  I can also remember the stories that, "Experts were surprised at the number of jobs added during the past month......" when Bush was in office.  

 The point is, you don't have to go back to Reagan to find the MSM juicing up the figures to suit their worldview. 

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

Just how endemic is the liberal media bias?

October 5, 2009 - 21:28 ET by needle

It is true that “you don't have to go back to Reagan to find the MSM juicing up the figures to suit their worldview.”

However, I would say that the point of the post is to show how thoroughly biased the liberal media was as much as thirty years ago, and how endemic the problem of bias is in the Liberal media.

- Relying upon the Liberal Media for your information is like relying upon an embezzler for your portfolio management.

- I didn't leave the Republican Party; the Republican Party left me.

They reverence FDR as if he

October 6, 2009 - 00:16 ET by mattm

They reverence FDR as if he was a miracle worker, even though he deepened the depression with the same kind of socialistic government overseership of the economy that this administration is pushing. 

That's just how their world spins.