@thomas: "Media bias? Read the below news article, generate your own headline,
then compare it to the actual headline at the bottom of the page.
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Fri Jan 7, 1:15 PM ET   Business - Reuters 
By Glenn Somerville 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers added 157,000 employees to
payrolls in December, completing the strongest year for job growth
since 1999, according to a government report on Friday that cemented
expectations of rising interest rates in 2005. 
While the Labor Department reported slightly fewer new December jobs
than the 175,000 Wall Street had anticipated, it also revised up the
numbers for each of the two prior months to 137,000 new jobs in
November and 312,000 in October from 112,000 and 303,000 respectively.
The revision upward in October and November data helped boost the 2004
new jobs total to 2.2 million  the largest since 3.2 million were
created in 1999 and in sharp contrast to the 61,000 that lost in 2003.
President Bush hailed the data as "very positive" for the economy's
future, and indeed December marked the 16th straight month in which
jobs were created. Treasury Secretary John Snow, on CNBC television,
predicted "good job numbers for the foreseeable future" and steady
economic expansion. 
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"December Job Gains Are Less Than Expected"
LMFAO!"
    @williams: "<quote>
[...]
LOL  The trasnparency is hilarious, isn't it?  Reminds one of that old 
joke about the _New York Times_ headline:
Meteorite Destroys New York City
Women, Blacks Hardest Hit
My recent favorites, and I wish I'd documented them rigorously, were the 
CNN headlines describing what the stock market was doingthe links on 
the front page that led to the story.  After all, the economy couldn't 
be doing TOO well, because that would be good for Bush's reelection 
chances.  :)
So if the Dow was down 40 or 50, you'd see something like "Stocks take a 
dive" or "Dow in the tank."  BUT, it could be as much as +40 or 50 and 
it would still say something like "Stocks struggle for direction."  It 
had to be very positivelike +80 or 100before it would say something 
like "Bulls run on Wall St."  It got to be a regular chuckle with me 
when I'd check in about 10 am or so.
Bo Williams - <email_address>
<url>"
    @caulds: "<quote>
I'm not sure that indicates a media bias so much as a cautious attitude about
the economic recovery, considering the effects rising interest rates may have on
record collective and individual debts, and we've got the problems of the
depreciating dollar at a time when we're more dependent than ever on foreign
investment in dollar-based securities.
When I try to discern a "media bias," I wonder what the media would've done to a
Democratic president had done what this president has in his first term,
presenting claims of an "eminent threat" that were later proven to be completely
false, then trying to switch the stated rationale for that reckless war to one
of "humanitarianism", putting American troops into harm's way while diverting
resources from the real threat from terrorists who are training, recruiting and
receiving funding elsewhere ... what would people have done to a Democratic
president who acted so recklessly?  
I know what I (as a long-time Republican voter) would've thought of such a
President.  And I think I'd have found the media just as willing to crucify him"
    @thomas: "On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 07:30:51 -0600, Charles Aulds <email_address>
wrote:
<quote>
Organizations that represent themselves as unbiased news gathering and
reporting entities have but one obligation; to report the facts as
they occur. "Cautious attitudes" belong on the editorial page.
<snicker>
The election's over Charles. Your guy lost. Save your energy for 2008."
    @DKolle: "On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 20:34:29 GMT, Jean Smith <email_address>
<quote>
They may be if you are dyslexic.
-Daniel "Mr. Brevity" Kolle; 16                        A.A. #2035
Koji Kondo, Yo-Yo Ma, Gustav Mahler, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Geirr Tveitt are my Gods.
Head of EAC Denial Department and Madly Insane Scientist."
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