Think news skews your views?

You may have heard last week that AT&T intends to cut another 7,400 jobs. A big headline today was that GM is cutting up to 12,000 jobs (albeit from its European operations). I bring this up because I'd like to propose a little experiment for someone (anyone) to try.

The experiment: Carefully comb through your daily newspaper for one month. Document each and every news story mentioning individual companies adding or slashing jobs. At the end of the month, tally up the stories to find the newspaper's net reported job loss figure. Using that figure, project how many months until the United States has zero jobs.

You then have two choices: (1) Buy guns, trade goods, and precious metals, OR (2) Think about what's wrong with your newspaper.