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"My opinion was reinforced last week when I heard that a Fox News Opinion Dynamics poll found that a huge majority of Americans think that our economy is growing worse. What have they been smoking? Our economy grew at a 4.4% rate during the first quarter of 2004, and these people think it's in the tank? Employment numbers are up. Manufacturing is up. Government revenue is up. Incomes are up. Home sales are up. Home ownership is at record levels. Poverty is down. The truth is that our economy is doing amazingly well -- and poised to do even better; yet the majority of Americans don't realize this? The forecast for economic growth for the current quarter is between 4.5 and 5%. With these numbers, how do you say our economy is doing poorly? Maybe it's because so many of these people rely on Entertainment Tonight for their daily news. You do know, don't you, that more Americans get their news from Entertainment Tonight than from any other single news source. "
posted by Robert at 1:43 PM
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That last comment sounds like a really dumbed down American talking... ;-)
Of course the vast majority of Entertainment Tonight viewers realize that they are not getting hard news, and would not consider that show to be their primary source of news information. That's just silly. By the way, Fox News is not exactly unbiased in much of their coverage, and their stories are not infrequently discredited. The economy may be rising this year, but over the past four years it has gone into the toilet and has only made a small upturn this year without much indication that it will make significant gains compared to what it has lost.
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