Times Says Economy is Improving

Weekly Example of Media Bias   —   Posted on April 28, 2010

“From the Mall to the Docks, Signs of Rebound,” reads a New York Times headline. Here’s how the story, datelined Portland, Ore., starts:

The docks are humming again at this sprawling Pacific port, with clouds of golden dust billowing off the piles of grain spilling into the bellies of giant tankers.

“Things are looking up,” said Dan Broadie, a longshoreman. No longer killing time at the union hall while waiting for work, instead he is guiding a mechanized spout pouring 44,000 tons of wheat into the Arion SB, bound for the Philippines.

The New York Times has its archives available and searchable online; access to articles published since 1987 is free. Can anyone find an article striking a similarly cheerleading tone during the 20 of the past 30 years in which the president was a Republican–even from a time when the economy actually was good?

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