Atrios is spot on when he says that the headline of this New York Times article is ridiculous on its face.
The headline of the article discussing the fallout from yesterday’s job report is: “Job Data Provides Ammunition for Two Sides in Presidential Race.”
Ammunition for both sides? Gimme a break.
You can certainly debate the mixed signals coming out of the economy as a whole. But there’s just no way in the world that job report (which reported a meager 21,000 jobs, almost all from the public sector) wasn’t bad news for the White House.
How’d they come up with that headline?
Late Update: Oh the infamy! The shame!
A reader notes that the Washington Times headline was: “Job Slump Puts Bush in Bad Light” and Fox News runs the headline as “Jobs Report Doesn’t Do Bush Any Favors.”
So long trying for false balance that you just fall off the edge?
The shame! The Infamy! Oh the Humanity!
[ed.note: this post originally began “Atrios is dead right when he says…” But a number of readers who use the RSS feed wrote in noting their brief moment of panic when they saw the RSS headline “Atrios is dead.” Thus the change.]
