Excellent article. The cartoon is great but I heard it suggested that there should have been a companion cartoon showing the lapdog pissing on Romney's leg.
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Michael Ramirez usually lets his editorial cartoons do the speaking at Investors Business Daily, but today he takes pen to paper in an entirely different medium a column to vent his frustration over media bias. While the national media focus relentlessly on issues like Mitt Romneys taxes and business deals from two decades ago, they pay little attention to mundane trivialities such as millions of Americans falling out of the workforce. Picking up on Jake Tappers observation that the media is failing the country on economics, Ramirez argues that the failing is deliberate narrative-building for the incumbent:
ABCs Tapper criticized the media for not covering the economy more.
A lot of people are hurting out there, he said. Unemployment is 8.3%. That doesnt even take into account the underemployed.
In recent polls, the most important issue to Americans continues to be the economy and jobs. Whats not being reported is that there are fewer people employed today than at the end of the last recession the longest spell without net jobs growth since at least World War II.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at the end of the recession 59.4% of Americans had jobs. Thats just 58.4% today.
The medias No. 1 job should be to cover the substantive issues of this campaign without regard to party affiliation or philosophical bias.
That its now acceptable for many in the media to flaunt their bias should be, to use Joe Bidens words, a big f-ing deal. Sadly, it isnt.
Ramirez: Media bias toward Obama a national scandal « Hot Air
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Michael Ramirez usually lets his editorial cartoons do the speaking at Investors Business Daily, but today he takes pen to paper in an entirely different medium a column to vent his frustration over media bias. While the national media focus relentlessly on issues like Mitt Romneys taxes and business deals from two decades ago, they pay little attention to mundane trivialities such as millions of Americans falling out of the workforce. Picking up on Jake Tappers observation that the media is failing the country on economics, Ramirez argues that the failing is deliberate narrative-building for the incumbent:
ABCs Tapper criticized the media for not covering the economy more.
A lot of people are hurting out there, he said. Unemployment is 8.3%. That doesnt even take into account the underemployed.
In recent polls, the most important issue to Americans continues to be the economy and jobs. Whats not being reported is that there are fewer people employed today than at the end of the last recession the longest spell without net jobs growth since at least World War II.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at the end of the recession 59.4% of Americans had jobs. Thats just 58.4% today.
The medias No. 1 job should be to cover the substantive issues of this campaign without regard to party affiliation or philosophical bias.
That its now acceptable for many in the media to flaunt their bias should be, to use Joe Bidens words, a big f-ing deal. Sadly, it isnt.
Ramirez: Media bias toward Obama a national scandal « Hot Air