Part of the reason economic policymakers have failed to properly address the poor economy is because the nation’s news media has not properly covered the unemployment crisis. For example, at the beginning of August, when Washington, DC was debating the debt ceiling crisis, the national debt dominated the airwaves. While it was appropriate for the media then to be covering the deficit due to the debt ceiling debate at the time, there was a stunning lack of coverage of the jobs crisis. A ThinkProgress review of the media coverage of the last week of July found that the word “debt” was mentioned more than 7,000 times on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, and “unemployed” was only mentioned 75 times:
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The accurate unemployment percentage is %16.
They ignore this tragedy and if they do bring it up it's your own damn fault if you're unemployed and can't find work.
It's Obama's failed economic policies and over taxation and unfriendly business atmosphere he has created that is keeping us down. Remove him and the economy repairs itself.
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