Juxtaposing Two AP Headlines

Headline 1: "World has avoided economic disaster, Obama says."

Headline 2: "Jobless rate hits 9.4 percent in May; layoffs slow"

Sweetness & Light observes:

... the bad news is buried in the article:

If laid-off workers who have given up looking for new jobs or have settled for part-time work are included, the unemployment rate would have been 16.4 percent in May, the highest on records dating to 1994.

And this:

Economists say the job market may not get back to normal — meaning a 5 percent unemployment rate — until 2013. Economic recoveries after financial crises tend to be slower, economists say.

Are there economic recoveries after non-financial crises?

Anyway, lest we forget, unemployment during the Bush administration was never anywhere near this bad:

Unemployment rate
This chart, like the one [above], is from the US Bureau Of Labor Statistics.

You won’t be seeing these anywhere in our watchdog media.

They're a courageous lot, what few that remain, that is.