"Doug Kanter" 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.

Why would I write to a paper that would simply send the letter to the trash
bin? It's much more effective to point out the bias in blogs across the
internet. If you haven't noticed, the major news organizations are losing
readership, and the internet is taking their place. You can reach more
readers tapping away at an internet keyboard, than sending a letter to a
newpaper that would probably never even publish the letter.

"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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"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.

Why would I write to a paper that would simply send the letter to the
trash bin? It's much more effective to point out the bias in blogs across
the internet. If you haven't noticed, the major news organizations are
losing readership, and the internet is taking their place. You can reach
more readers tapping away at an internet keyboard, than sending a letter
to a newpaper that would probably never even publish the letter.

Major news organizations are ALL losing ***PRINT*** readership and gaining
online readership. I'm not sure where you get your stats from, but I heard
this from real source: An interview a month ago with Craig Dubow, president
and CEO of Gannett. Do you suppose he has any reliable data on this issue?