{"id":26143,"date":"2011-05-19T05:15:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:15:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-02-10T12:05:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T17:05:56","slug":"today_s_installment_of_better_than_expected_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/today_s_installment_of_better_than_expected_news\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Installment of&#8230; &#8220;Better Than Expected&#8221; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>RUSH: It\u2019s time now, folks, for another installment in the monthly &#8216;Better Than Expected\u2019 series from the Drive-By Media. This time, it\u2019s job growth. Headline from Jeannine Aversa, AP economics writer: &#8216;Job Growth Is Better-Than-Expected.\u2019 What is this, the sixth or seventh straight month where all the experts have been stunned by economic news? &#8216;Employers boosted payrolls by a better than expected 132,000 jobs in June, enough to keep the unemployment rate at a relatively low&#8230;\u2019 Relatively low! (Laughing.) It\u2019s record low! (Laughing.) You just have to love these people. Everybody\u2019s being exposed to the way they do things and they don\u2019t get it! They continue. They refuse to adapt. &#8216;&#8230;better than expected 132,000 jobs&#8230;relatively low unemployment rate at 4.5%. It was another sign that the economy is snapping out of a nearly year-long sluggish spell.\u2019 A nearly year-long sluggish spell? I love this part of the article, too. It says, &#8216;Despite the healthy jobs market and the budding rebound the public is giving President Bush low marks for his economic stewardship.\u2019 Oh! Well, I\u2019m so surprised. The media spend 30 days a month reporting how bad everything is going, then on the 31st day of the month they write the CYA, the &#8216;economy\u2019s getting better than expected\u2019 story, and it\u2019s on to the next four straight weeks of hand-wringing. It\u2019s all about creating a perception of disaster, imminent doom, and crisis.<\/p>\n<p>They follow up that with copious polling to see how well they\u2019re doing at creating that perception. You know, polls are the quality control tests that the Drive-Bys use to gauge how well they\u2019re &#8216;managing the news,\u2019 and &#8216;managing the news\u2019 is exactly what they do. That phrase comes from this guy in the Buffalo News. He had a newspaper column the other day that we read to you about the immigration bill and how the old media got trampled here, and the new media ran away with it, and they gotta figure out now &#8212; the old Drive-Bys have to figure out &#8212; how they\u2019re going to &#8216;manage the news of the presidential race.\u2019 Whether it was unwittingly done or not, that\u2019s one of the best eye-openers as to how people in the Drive-By Media view their jobs that I\u2019ve ever seen: &#8216;manage the news.\u2019 So all polls are, for the most part, are the quality control tests that the Drive-Bys use to gauge how well they\u2019re managing the news. &#8216;Let\u2019s say they spend 30 days just beating the garbage out of the economy, just ripping it to shreds. Then they go out and do a poll: &#8216;How\u2019s Bush doing on the economy?&#8221; and the poll says, &#8216;Bush sucks on the economy,\u2019 and the Drive-Bys say, &#8216;See? We\u2019ve been managing the news well. We\u2019re doing a damn good job of creating a negative perception where none exists.\u2019 That\u2019s exactly how it works.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It\u2019s time now, folks, for another installment in the monthly &#8216;Better Than Expected\u2019 series from the Drive-By Media. This time, it\u2019s job growth. 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