Media Push Doom & Gloom While U.S. Economy Roars Ahead

Published: November 5, 2007, 10:49 am

Tags: budget, economy, unemployment, andrea mitchell, bill clinton, george w bush, cnn, nbc, usa today

Back in the 1990s, TV journalists worried that Bill Clinton wasn't getting enough credit for the wonderful things that happened while he was President. NBC's then-White House correspondent Andrea Mitchell whined on CNN's Larry King Live back on August 18, 1994 that her fear was that Clinton doesn't get credit for a lot of the good, positive things he's done.... The economy is in better shape....He should be getting some credit for the economy. Now that a tax-cutting Republican is in the White House, however, big media types are working to bury the news of America's strong economy. Today's Investor's Business Daily has a fine summary of recent good news in an editorial headlined, The Media's Blackout on the Boom. Here's a key excerpt: Friday's employment report, showing a much-higher-than-expected increase of 166,000 in nonfarm payroll jobs, was only the latest in a spate of remarkable reports showing the economy's stunning resilience. Earlier this week,

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