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Strong February Employment Still Downplayed by Some Media
Several outlets frown on 243,000 new jobs, but others show improvement in coverage of monthly jobs report.As good a month as February was for Americans looking for work, some media continued to do a sub-par job of informing the public about the condition of the nation’s labor market – even as almost a quarter of a million new positions were created. Although the overall coverage was better than…
CBS Drowns Bush Iraq Speech with Negative Poll Numbers, Skip How Third
CBS News chose the day President Bush launched a series of speeches, intended to boost support for the Iraq war, to highlight a poll which found most Americans are much more pessimistic than is the President. In laying out on Monday's CBS Evening News a series of poll findings, including how 66 percent feel Bush has been describing the “things in Iraq” as “better than they are,” both Bob…