Major Media Hide Good Unemployment News

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Drudge and Bloomberg got it. The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, CNN, all hid it. FoxNews.com buried it below the fold. What is it?

US Jobless Claims Fall to Lowest Level Since 2000

There number of new claims for unemployment benefits fell, last week, by 39,000 to a four-year low. Yet all of the liberal media buried the story. Why? Because good economic news hurts Kerry’s chances of election, and the primary goal of the major news media in the US is to get him elected.

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