Wish Some Will Just Do The Math

Sure, Iraq and everything that the mainstream media (MSM) could find wrong with it, and the immigration rallies tend to be 'spectacular' and probably sell paper, apart from being useful and easy to spin as fodder against the MSM's favorite conservative political leaders. (Yawn)

But this is why I am so grateful for the internet where I am free to find refreshing positive news which otherwise is denied me by merely relying on antique media stuck on business-as-usual self-glory, deciding still, they think, for America and the world what should be "news" and what is not.

Sample a quote from a post in The Christian Science Monitor website, csmonitor.com, by Mark Trumbull, titled US economy's latest output: better jobs:

The US economy isn't just producing jobs these days, it's also producing good jobs.

The story defines "good jobs" as:

...the kinds that can keep American living standards rising.

Here's one example of numbers Trumbull cites in his report:

The economy added 211,000 jobs in March, according to a Labor Department report Friday - a solid showing about on par with expectations. The unemployment rate fell a notch, to 4.7 percent.

Or take this quote from a story today in the Dallas Morning News site, dallasnews.com, by Kim Horner, titled Homeless numbers fall 3.3% (You might be asked to register first to access the page):

The number of people sleeping in homeless shelters and on the streets in Dallas County decreased 3.3 percent from a year ago, to 5,704, according to a new count being released today.
The drop was much sharper for longtime homeless people with mental or physical disabilities, who are considered chronically homeless. That number fell 26 percent, to 733, according to the annual count by the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance and the city of Dallas

There is much good going on out there that the MSM will simply not report, or will report but bury in some obscure place in their papers, or will feature prominently but with their leftist bias spinning it beyond recognition.

It is said that numbers do not lie. It does make one wish that some people will just do the math so the MSM's editorializing can be seen for what it really is---just their warped view on things.

Still, the MSM has a way to spin numbers, too, by using surveys with cleverly constructed questions that heavily favor answers they want to get in the first place.

So, go figure.