April 6, 2008

Instapundit on Economic Reporting

Glenn Reynolds is a man of few words. And it works for him. But on those occasions when he breaks out of the snappy one-liner mode, he says a mouthful:

"I guess I have tuned out a lot of the media econo-doomsaying because they've been predicting massive economic collapse for pretty much my entire sensate life and so far it hasn't come. Plus, at the moment they're playing their usual pre-election gloom-and-doom game in the hopes of helping the Democrats.

Which doesn't mean that the economy is necessarily doing better than they say, since their bias is exceeded only by their laziness and ignorance."

I don't know about you but I plan to use the phrase "bias exceeded only by their laziness and ignorance" in all discussions about the MSM from this moment forward. I could dine out of it.

UPDATE: An add-on from Warren @ Coyote Blog. "If They Could Do Math, They Wouldn't Have Been Journalism Majors."

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