Our friend and past guest on Pundit Review Radio Tom Blumer of Bizzyblog got in a little dust up with a certain NY Times Reporter this past week named David Cay Johnston who wrote a very questionable and suspect piece entitled: “Average Incomes Fell for Most of 2000-2005.” Our friend Tom looked a little deeper into the numbers and came up with a very different conclusion. Seems as though Mr. Johnston conveniently omitted some fairly significant pieces of information from his calculations.
It will take a few minutes to get through but is well worth it if you want to see why the mainstream media- who have gotten away with its distinct brand of agenda driven journalism for so long- loathes many in the New Media Blogsphere who meticulously check their work- and often expose their innacuracies and outright lies.
Writers at the Times and elsewhere could get away with fudging the numbers and skewing the data to advance their leftist political agenda, but subject matter experts like our friend Tom Blumer and Patrick Frey of Patterico’s Pontifications who has made a carreer out of forcing the LA Times to issue retractions have been very successful exposing their intellectual laziness, shoddy work, and biased coverage.
Tom has also informed me that he is trying to get the Times to issue another retraction/correction from the Public Editor and the Standards Editor demanding a correction to the Times’ six-month old claim, never retracted, that we were (and I suppose, since never retracted, still are) in a manufacturing recession which you can read here
The comment section is very interesting as well. Great job Tom. Way to go!