Media’s Bias, Dishonesty Re: Reagan Vs. Obama Unemployment Bodes Ill For America
Our founding fathers believed a free and independent press – which would serve as a watchdog protecting the nation from the lies, corruption, mismanagement, and demagoguery of politicians – would be utterly essential for a functioning democracy.
It would be nice if we had one.
The fact is that going back decades, the media have become anything but either “independent” or a “watchdog.” Rather than guarding and protecting the truth, they have become the “lapdogs” of the left, licking the faces of Democrats and turning viciously on Republicans, without regard to the truth or the facts.
A study comparing the media’s response to IDENTICAL job loss numbers between Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama pointedly demonstrate the deceit and hypocrisy of the mainstream media. In short, Reagan was given negative coverage 91% of the time, whereas Obama received negative coverage 7% of the time. For some reason, the same media that has repeatedly claimed that Obama “inhereited” the recession could never bring themselves to make a similar claim about Reagan’s inheritance via Jimmy Carter.
There are some useful charts and videos on the Businessandmedia site which hosts this article. I cite the article here merely to preserve the record. My discussion of the ramifications of the article will follow.
Identical Unemployment Numbers ‘Good’ News for Obama, But ‘All’ Bad under Reagan.
Full Report
A study from the Business & Media Institute
By Julia A. Seymour
Executive Summary
PDF Version
These are tough times. More than 3 million people have lost their jobs just since February 2009 and consumer confidence fell unexpectedly in September. The unemployment rate has spiked from 8.1 percent to 9.7 percent in the first seven months of Barack Obama’s presidency and is expected to climb even higher.
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Media’s Bias, Dishonesty Re: Reagan Vs. Obama Unemployment Bodes Ill For America
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