English journalist brain slows at fastest pace in 26 years

By Craig | Published: January 30, 2009

I am becoming frustrated by economic journalism. This article by the Guardian’s Kathryn Hopkins is misleading, inarticulate, unbalanced, and just plain negative. And i don’t understand it. The US economy hasn’t shrunk annually by 6.4%  you silly dunderhead. The US economy shrunk by 3.5% in one quarter (I think) but grew annually by 1.3%. This is hardly the end of the world. Plus what has this 3.5% figure got to do with 1982 and the hyperbole ‘worst in 26 years?’.

This is the worst headline article I have read since the 6th quarter of 1989!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/30/us-economy-in-recession

And what is worse than a Guardian dunderhead? A Melboure Age parrot. Here it is again in Melbourne. Monkey see monkey do. (link).

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