News half full or half empty?

[OK, so the Globe and Mail is my preferred online source for daily news in the morning. So what! The National Post's online offering blows big time. Sue me. ed.]

Anyway, here's a trio of articles all in the same paper on the same day. Item one, on page 5 is headlined Forecasts for U.S. economy brighten. Gist of it is that "forecasters" in the US are predicting 2.9% growth in 2003 (with only 5-weeks remaining, confidence levels should be high!) and 4% in 2004. All good stuff. Very bullish.

However, as one moves to the buried bits on page 27, this pair of headlines is there to welcome: U.S. high-tech jobs continue to disappear (blogged this below) and Many Canadians fear job loss next year. This latter one is not just Canadian neurosis though, as the article goes on to say that even more people in each of Hong Kong (>25%), the USA (>25%), and the United Kingdom (just under 30%) feel similarly gloomy.

Could this imply that the happier people are the ones who only skim the front pages?

Posted by Grayson at November 21, 2003 12:40 PM