AP Plays 'Hide the Numbers' In Its Unemployment Claims Report

Tom Blumer
February 4th, 2010 12:53 PM
You would think that someone going to the trouble of reporting on something would at least provide the most basic of relevant numbers so that readers could understand what they're telling us.That isn't the case with the 11:51 a.m. version of Uncle Sam's report on unemployment claims by the Associated Press's Stephen Bernard and Tim Paradis. Their report failed to specifically state what analysts…
 

AP: Both Brown Win and Obama Anti-Bank Attacks Examples of 'Populism

Tom Blumer
January 24th, 2010 11:44 PM
It's amazing how Bernard Condon and Tim Paradis of the Associated Press managed to hang the same label on totally opposite political positions in their report on the situation in the stock market late this afternoon.According to the AP pair, Scott Brown's U.S. Senate win in Massachusetts was due to a "wave of populism," at the same time as President Obama is supposedly planning to use "populist…