Posted by
Mike Bates on Thursday, July 08, 2010 3:17:39 PM
Recovery summer just keeps getting better and better. News outlets
such as MSNBC.com
announce "New jobless claims drop sharply." Although the
unadjusted data
reflect
an actual increase, the media are reporting a seasonally adjusted drop
of 21,000 in jobless claims.
But that wasn't good enough for MSNBC. While broadcasting an Obama
speech during Andrea Mitchell Reports, the screen crawl reported "NEW
JOBLESS CLAIMS DECLINE BY OVER 200,000."
OK, mistakes happen. But my guess is that if the error reflected
poorly on the Obama administration, someone would have caught the error
pronto. An hour later, MSNBC Live anchored by Tamron Hall was still
featuring the same mistake. The following hour, anchor Chris Jansing
took over and new jobless claims still had dropped by more than 200,000.