New Math--Again

I know you'll be shocked, shocked--but the media again reaffirmed (tpfp post 3/1 2:16) press bias against Republicans. When Clinton was President, CNN reported economic statistics like this: "Economists didn't expect June's unemployment rate to be much different from May's, which was an already-low 5.6 percent. But in fact, it did fall -- to 5.3 percent." But today's WaPo's page 1 story on February job data won't let you forget a Republican's in the White House: "the unemployment rate held steady at 5.6 percent because hundreds of thousands of people stopped looking for work, the Labor Department reported yesterday. The weak jobs report provided fresh fuel for partisan combat in this presidential election year." And the story helpfully blames "rising health care and insurance costs" and outsourcing.

Eight years ago, 5.6 percent was "already-low." Today, 5.6 percent is "weak." It could be that press-types aren't particularly good at math, right?

Nah--I don't think so either.