Fox News Does an About-Face on Economic News
April 1, 2009 at 10:20 AM Leave a comment
During the five years that I monitored Fox’s “premiere business news” show, Your World w/Neil Cavuto, plenty of bad economic news came out. However, there were many, many times when Cavuto hid that information in the bowels of his show – mentioning it as an aside, or “reporting” it by sticking it in the crawl at the bottom of the screen. The goal, after all, was to make George W. Bush look as good as possible so bad news was, shall we say, swept under the rug.
Fast forward to January 20, 2009 and the swearing in of a Democratic president. This morning I watched as “America’s Newsroom” no less (not known for its business news), led with the new unemployment numbers and an appearance by Fox’s Stuart Varney to, ah, explain scare the bejesus out of viewers and to make absolutely sure they understood what a huge and bad number (742,000) it was.
Granted, it is a big number and it’s bad but again, chances are good that back in the day, Fox would have dismissed it (the higher the number, the less extensive the coverage). But, alas, not now. Now, with a Democrat in the White House, they are doing exactly the opposite.
They’re pigs (no offense to pigs).
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