ABC radio news spins higher unemployment for Dems

Happened to catch ABC radio's 9 a.m. news segment Friday morning. The lead story was the release of the latest unemployment figures.

The story was very up-beat: several sentences along the lines of "greatly improved" and "recovery well underway," but I noticed they never gave the actual percent unemployed.

Much later in the day I found the reason (as everyone can guess): The official, gubmint-calculated unemployment had increased from 9.5% to 9.6%.

Yet nowhere in its entire lead story did ABC "news" say that.

Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't you think that in the lead story of the broadcast--supposedly about the release of the latest figures on "X"-- an honest news organization would give the actual, you know, figure?

Wonder why ABC news didn't do that? You don't suppose that's because they're thoroughly in the tank for Democrats, do ya?

Nah, that couldn't be it. After all, all the "elites" keep telling us "there is no liberal bias in the media."

Update: Found this on a Time mag site:

The unemployment rate, probably the most famous of economic gauges, may actually be a very bad indicator of how healthy the economy is.

WOW! Here all along the MFM have been telling us that rising unemployment was DOOM, DEFEAT, DISPAIR!! Of course that was under George Bush.

Now that the Dems control every brance of the entire government, suddenly the unemployment rate "may actually be a very BAD indicator" of economic health !!

It's so wonderful how old problems--the ones under Republican administrations--suddenly become indicators of great new wonderfulness when the Dems are in charge.

Gee, wonder why that might be?