Disconnected at the Old York Times
Here is the opening paragraph from Bob Herbert's column today in the New York Times:
You don't hear much from the American worker anymore. Like battered soldiers at the end of a lost war, ordinary workers seem resigned to their diminished status.
The rest of the article goes on in the same gloomy vein:
The grim terms imposed on them... a permanent state of employment insecurity.... the workplace has become a hub of anxiety and fear.... that increasingly endangered species, the secure job... workers and their families are often emotionally strapped as well. Common problems include depression, domestic strife and divorce... the reality is that there are not enough good jobs currently available to meet the demand of college-educated and well-trained workers in the United States....
Meanwhile, here is the opening paragraph of a report released this morning by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis:
Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 5.3 percent in the first quarter of 2006, according to preliminary estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
And, here is the opening paragraph from last month's jobs report from the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Nonfarm employment increased by 138,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of theU.S. Department of Labor reported today. Industries with notable job gains over the month included financial activities, health care, and manufacturing. Average hourly earnings rose by 9 cents in April.
So, let's see, the economy is booming along at a 5.3% annual growth rate, and unemployment is at 4.7%, which is about the same as it was at this point in Bill Clinton's second term, which appears to have entered liberal mythology as a golden age for the American economy. And yet Bob Herbert is writing columns about how American workers are "battered soldiers at the end of a lost war"?
Bob Herbert commits journalistic malpractice every time he pens a column. Where or where are the editors at the Times? Where are the fact checkers? Doesn't anyone feel an obligation to the truth anymore? Do they, at last, have no shame at all?
You don't hear much from the American worker anymore. Like battered soldiers at the end of a lost war, ordinary workers seem resigned to their diminished status.
The rest of the article goes on in the same gloomy vein:
The grim terms imposed on them... a permanent state of employment insecurity.... the workplace has become a hub of anxiety and fear.... that increasingly endangered species, the secure job... workers and their families are often emotionally strapped as well. Common problems include depression, domestic strife and divorce... the reality is that there are not enough good jobs currently available to meet the demand of college-educated and well-trained workers in the United States....
Meanwhile, here is the opening paragraph of a report released this morning by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis:
Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 5.3 percent in the first quarter of 2006, according to preliminary estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
And, here is the opening paragraph from last month's jobs report from the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Nonfarm employment increased by 138,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of theU.S. Department of Labor reported today. Industries with notable job gains over the month included financial activities, health care, and manufacturing. Average hourly earnings rose by 9 cents in April.
So, let's see, the economy is booming along at a 5.3% annual growth rate, and unemployment is at 4.7%, which is about the same as it was at this point in Bill Clinton's second term, which appears to have entered liberal mythology as a golden age for the American economy. And yet Bob Herbert is writing columns about how American workers are "battered soldiers at the end of a lost war"?
Bob Herbert commits journalistic malpractice every time he pens a column. Where or where are the editors at the Times? Where are the fact checkers? Doesn't anyone feel an obligation to the truth anymore? Do they, at last, have no shame at all?
posted by PDB at 12:20 PM
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