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A Double Standard on the Dow: If It Soars, It Bores...

...but if it's bleeding value, it leads the front page.
By
Clay Waters
April 2, 2008 - 1:23pm

Is the Times burying good economic indicators? The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 391 points on the opening day of the second quarter , meriting a story on the front page of Business Day Wednesday. But the headline over Michael Grynbaum's story didn't even mention the stock rise, just vague "optimism": "Wall Street Shows [1]Optimism That Crisis Is Burning Out [1]."



By contrast, last November 8, the day after the Dow dropped 360 points, the paper made the falling stock market its lead story [2](written by Grynbaum and Peter Goodman). The headline was specific: "Markets and Dollar Sink As Slowdown Fear Grows."


Source URL: http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/double-standard-dow-if-it-soars-it-bores

Links:
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/business/02stox.html?scp=
[2] http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2007/20071108120015.aspx
[3] http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/10
[4] http://archive2.mrc.org/division/timeswatch
[5] http://archive2.mrc.org/category/economy
[6] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/timeswatchorg
[7] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/timeswatch
[8] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/nytimes
[9] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/newyorktimes
[10] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/dowjones
[11] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/stockmarket
[12] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/headlines
[13] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/doublestandard
[14] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/michaelgrynbaum
[15] http://www.tellthetruth2012.org