Wow! This is just one example that I've seen lately where 'the media' is doing actual journalism and trying to understand the REAL facts so they can report truth to Americans instead of what government wants them to report.
Check this out: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34280589/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/
While Democrats, especially president Obama, are trying to take credit for 'turning around the economy' as they say last week's statistic that unemployment decreased from 10.2% to 10%, the journalist in the article above reported the truth behind the numbers. At least most of the truth.
A couple of blogs ago I took the current administration to task for lying to the public with incomplete jobs statistics, reporting only the aspect that makes them look good. The media deserves credit when they do the right thing like this.
We need more truthful and honest reporting in order to know what to tell our representatives what we think of their actions or inactions. This article is encouraging but the media has a loooooong way to go to help us know the truth about what this adminstration and their co-conspirators in Congress are doing to America. We need the unvarnished truth in our news. We need to know harsh reality when it is harsh, not some pie-in-the-sky reporting on only the 5% or 10% of it that makes it look positive. It's not the media's job to cheer us up. It's their job (if they're going to honor the principles of journalism) to report the facts and put them in a context that helps us understand what it means.
I was beginning to think they lacked the skills, integrity and, yes, smarts to report and analyze the truth but articles like the one referenced above give me hope that maybe they can do what journalism's principles call on them to do.
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