No it's not a new brand of cologne, but it sure sounds like it.
Today, November 30, Dan Gainor, BMI's Director appeared on Fox Business to discuss the media's hype of an oncoming recession. Host David Asman began the segment asking, "Has the media emphasized the good along with the bad?"
Gainor responded, "Of course not, we haven't seen a lot of good news...and in fact if you watch the networks they skipped what even the New York Times put on their front page, that the Fed said a recession isn't likely."
The Business and Media Institute has convered the media obsession with recession in the November 28 edition of the Balance Sheet.
-Stuart James is a Research Analyst at the Business and Media Institute
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In the past six years, has
November 30, 2007 - 17:34 ET by Chris NormanIn the past six years, has anyone ever seen a headline in the NYT reading, "Great News on the Economy!"?
A New Issue
November 30, 2007 - 17:59 ET by Gat New YorkThey no longer have Iraq as a trump card for an election next year so MSM needs a new issue they can develop to try and get Dem win in '08.
agree. They've lost
November 30, 2007 - 20:10 ET by MidAmericaagree. They've lost Iraq and global warming. hillary is sinking and they need to throw her a life line. The economy doesn't have to sink they just have to make people think it has. It worked for billy in 92.
Libs
November 30, 2007 - 18:54 ET by JDWThe libs have been going nowhere for some time and the RNC has stoppoed them from instituting further agenda.
Why haven't they attempted to advance anything?
All of this talk about a negative economy, unemployment, taxes..., why not show America what the libs are rejecting rather than what they are in essence controlling?
The libs are inspiring anything but productivity and stories such as this prove it.
JDW
Sen Clinton: Distinguished Founder of Media Matters
Unfortunately, most
November 30, 2007 - 19:37 ET by liberal_bug_zapperUnfortunately, most Liberals I know (which is a lot since I live near Seattle) believe the news they read and see, and yet when months, and now years go by without a recession, they see it as a conspiracy, as if the media is right-biased and hiding the recession for Bush.
My conclusion is that they have a mental illness and no amount of facts or reason will convince them otherwise.
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"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities." ~ Thomas Paine
Your Conclusion
November 30, 2007 - 23:31 ET by timzankIs 100% correct. No logic involved.
Hiding the truth
November 30, 2007 - 23:27 ET by Jerry MackAny news that would or could make George Bush look good is not reportable news.
All **** UP, Situation Normal
December 1, 2007 - 12:37 ET by w0tmAs much as it is 100% normal for the media to praise everything liberal and twist/ignore/omit all things conservative, it's also normal for the media to cheer for, and trumpet, bad news. This instance is more that than part of the "vast left-wing conspiracy". When was the last time you saw TV news lead with happy news? "Man saves dog" is a non-starter while "man bites dog" is. "If it bleeds - it leads". There's nothing media everywhere dreams of more than being able to publish "World Ends Tomorrow - Women and Minorities most Effected".
So let's save our "fairness in media" flags for the many thousands of instances of true liberal bias that occur in the media each day. As I remember, the media, after helping defeat Bush, Sr. in 1992 with their (non) recession, did the same thing in 1994 helping elect a Republican house. They harped on everything that would frighten their readers/viewers or make feel insecure. "Tune in at 11 to make sure what we scared you with at 10 is still poised to destroy us all". Business as usual no matter what party controls government. If/when the "Fairness Doctrine" is again forced upon us, will media be required to devote an equal amount of time to good news?
There is a reason why polls have always shown most people positive about their own future but negative about the futures of the country as a whole. The front page of any newspaper any day would lead you to believe "Strife, Mayhem And Return To The 14th Century Begins Tomorrow At 9 AM". Read a newspaper from 1900, substitute names and places as needed and that one copy is all you'll ever need to stay "informed"! Laminate it and just read that one issue over and over each day from now on. You will not miss a thing!
If the economy is booming, the fears of it over heating are the headlines. The slightest dip is worthy of front page "The End is Near" stories. If media ran more than the occasional "good news" story, now THAT would be news!
The media either doesn't know or doesn't care how much they are to blame for turning the best of conditions into chaos. Media should not MAKE the news as it so often does. The European media, in the early 60's, took the poised to explode upward economy of France and threw it into 40 years of socialist agony. The Australian media just did the same. The "effect" part of "cause and effect" often lags so much that France's stagnant economy only brought forth calls for more gasoline to throw on the fire. Maybe they have finally woken up. I hope so but I doubt it. Their media is already busy "reporting" on the "victims" hurt by the new economic policies needed to right the ship. And the new government hasn't done a thing yet! The same will be true with Australia. Australia's new socialist government will grow their own victim class and create millions who owe their souls to the government. Australia's best days are now behind them thanks mostly to their media. Will we follow their lead next year? Probably. More bad news is "just what the doctor ordered" for the ailing media. The next twenty years will bring forth more truly bad news than they can find room to print.
But this one instance is just the media doing what it does best; selling "doom and gloom". Readership and viewership is everything. When mankind's inherent insecurity and fear of the future ends, the media will only then "just report the news". When the sun rises in the west, start looking for this to happen. Until then, the media will remain in perpetual "All **** UP, Situation Normal." If they truly believed what they write, they wouldn't order newsprint for tomorrow's edition. They just told us "the end is here" and we should all hide under our beds. Could it be they don't believe their own news stories?