Able-bodied, we must be getting close to election stretch here further in the summer of 2012. It ' s quite conspicuous when you read the separate newspapers, and I happened to scan quite a few. You can take chunk addicted story or event and look at the differences between how it is portrayed in the articles. The oblique of announcement has gotten completely out of dominion. In some newspapers it appears the writers actually feel obligated to give the stories they produce a left - leaning liberal stance. So much so that they don ' t even try to hide it anymore, and now the readers expect it.
The other day I was talking to a local publisher of a newspaper and he said that he had no choice, because that ' s what the people want. However, how does he know that? Perhaps over time the newspaper has jaded the reader, gotten into their minds, and now the reader appears to want what they are producing, therefore it ' s a self - fulfilling prophecy, but it ' s nothing to be proud of. In fact, it ' s somewhat disgusting when you think about it because the news is supposed to be the news, not an entire newspaper full of op - ed pieces as that stuff should be saved for the opinion page in my professional opinion.
Indeed, I perused a piece in the New York Times about retail sales and it cited several references, but I read the exact same summary of the retail sales figures, the Beige Sheet, and listened to the conference call from Walmart before I read the New York Times article on the topic in the Summer of 2012 - wow, are we sure we are talking about the same events?
It ' s as if the New York Times is trying to help the Obama Administration look good with their economic whitewashing of reality. To read about the retail sector and the results for the second quarter of 2012 in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, investors daily, or the financial times and you get a totally different picture.
Why you ask? There can only be one reason in putting the current administration in a favorable light, and have that looking good on economic matters, it will help sway the election. Also it guarantees that the Democrats will spend their money advertising because they are also getting favorable editorial content and slanted news stories in their favor.
They say you can only believe half of what you read, and therefore I do read two newspapers. But I ' m even wondering if that ' s true anymore, it ' s as if you can ' t believe anything, especially during election season. Please consider all this and think on it.
