"NOYB" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"NOYB" wrote in message
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Was Black Friday sales good? Or poor? It depends upon who you ask.
Look at the following headlines:


AP: 'There was a lot of hype, but results were on lukewarm side'...
NYT: Mall Stores See Trouble in Sales Data...


Financial Times: Wall Street seen boosted by strong Black Friday...
BLOOMBERG: 'It was a very good weekend'...


Why are liberals eternal pessimists?

NYT story: Who do you suppose they interviewed about sales data? Do you
have that information? Do you think the NYT invented stories from
non-existent merchants?


The NYT chose to focus their headlines on the negative mall store data
(down a mere 0.9% if early estimates are accurate) rather than the
exceptionally strong data coming from the discount chains outside the
mall...which saw an 11.4% increase in spending.


Why does a 0.9% decline in sales make their headlines, but an 11.4%
increase doesn't get mentioned until halfway down an article about
"lukewarm" sales?



Beats me. Why don't you write to the paper? You'll probably say you don't
have the time, but I'll bet you'll spend more time complaining about it
here.