Today, mortgage applications for loans to purchase homes
rose a seasonally adjusted 2.1%.
Mortgage applications rose 0.7% last week, survey shows - MarketWatch
Economic good news will not make headlines in the NYT or on CNN. Some "news" organizations will continue to Bush Bash and refute good economic indicator statistics; but that is not what sells newspapers or increases ad revenue on TV.
Ownership and having an executive position in the media influences what we see ultimately see and read in the news.
Who owns the NYT?
Jew Watch - Leaders - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Owner of New York Times
Yep, I am generally stereotyping Jewish media moguls as being confirmed Democratic contributors. There are so many it is hard not to.
Since I am new to the WAB, let me publicly claim, that I personally don't really care what your religion is unless your an Islamic whack job who wants to kill people so don't be like that a@@ Donny Duetch and say I offended anyone over religion. The point being, that a lot of democratic campaign contributors are the people who are running what I call, An American Media Campaign to discredit Bush and get you to vote along the Democratic Party line.
Who runs ABC? FOX? CNN? VIACOM? Even Hugh Hefner of Playboy fame is a democratic contributor to both Obama and Clinton's presidential campaigns. So is Larry Flint, owner of Hustler even with all his issues of free speech- a democratic contributor. Even in the land of porn there is no escape. Barry Diller-media mogul and Democrat. David Westin -ABC news President and Democrat. Peter Chernin-Pres. of News Corp and soon The Dow Jones Co., and The Wall Street Journal.
And the list goes on. For a more popular media people and their political contributions to both parties:
NEWSMEAT Hall of Fame ► Political Donations of Media Stars and Executives
The media sells us more than just commercials.