Comments for The Chicago White Sox Sunday Defeat Sent Stock Market Tumbling: It Wasn't the Debt Downgrade at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.cepr.net Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:26:55 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-chicago-white-sox-sunday-defeat-sent-stock-market-tumbling-it-wasnt-the-debt-downgrade#comment-10667 I've long since given up on NPR. They churn out the same nonsense fed to them by the corporate hacks in our government (both parties)that the rest of our corporate-run media does. they don't bother with any real investigation or fact-checking, and they sacrifice truth for "balance." I used to think they were just afraid of the "liberal bias" label so skillfully and incessantly trumpeted by the right-wing noise machine. Now I realize it's more that NPR journalists and reporters are just part of the same corporate/elite and beltway club. And it's become infotainment essentially, for many (often ignorant) liberals. - trish Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:25:13 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-chicago-white-sox-sunday-defeat-sent-stock-market-tumbling-it-wasnt-the-debt-downgrade#comment-10666 I have been looking for figures on how many people have been laid off from NPR since the recession started (or ended, for that matter), and I can find no such information. I can believe that if a large number of NPR's staff had left their employ that perhaps reporters and commentators were now being busied by so many additional responsibilities (such as sweeping the floors, cleaning the glass walls of the broadcast booths or washing out the dishes in the employees' break room) that they no longer have time to find any facts on which to rest the opinions they broadcast. I stopped listening to NPR when they insisted on continually inviting Alan Simpson back on the station to make snide comments and demonstrate the meaning of the word "curmudgeon." Even country music is better company in my car than Simpson. - S. D. Jeffries Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:19:56 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-chicago-white-sox-sunday-defeat-sent-stock-market-tumbling-it-wasnt-the-debt-downgrade#comment-10658 "relatively countries" Relatively what, exactly? Small? Weak? Poor? Whatever happened to copy editors? - anonymous Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:22:37 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-chicago-white-sox-sunday-defeat-sent-stock-market-tumbling-it-wasnt-the-debt-downgrade#comment-10656 Critical Thinking 101 - Jay Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:35:22 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-chicago-white-sox-sunday-defeat-sent-stock-market-tumbling-it-wasnt-the-debt-downgrade#comment-10655 I'm in complete agreement with Dean's critique and the comments of those above. It seems to me, as a regular listener to NPR (in my home office), that NPR as well as most of the rest of the media (mainstream & other) prefer to rely on "omniscient narration" rather than rely "objective narration" which requires reporters to engage in empirical fact finding/gathering, inductive & deductive reasoning and a suspension of their on beliefs/self-interests - all of the latter being known more commonly as hard work. But, being one who does not enjoy omniscience myself, I'll readily admit that my guess is as much sarcasm as an untested hypothesis based on observation. - William Hurley Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:31:28 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-chicago-white-sox-sunday-defeat-sent-stock-market-tumbling-it-wasnt-the-debt-downgrade#comment-10649 No Sir. The plunge was a delayed response to the Red Sox winning the season series against your Yankees. NPR (Neocon Propaganda Radio) has a current research going on on the effect of wins and losses by the METS and the National League. But preliminary results suggest AL teams have more correlation with the "free markets" because of the "American" in their name. Will "report" more on this if you care to in the future. I doubt it. - Nassim Sabba Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:42:27 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-chicago-white-sox-sunday-defeat-sent-stock-market-tumbling-it-wasnt-the-debt-downgrade#comment-10648 Every day listeners are treated to another absurd analysis; in reality the stock market dropped after the weekend because the NY Yankees lost and it rained torrentially on Sunday in the Hamptons , ruining the brunch, golf, BBQ plans or the,cruising around in the Jaguar with the top down indulged in so many brokers and Market geniuses! NPR, get back to reality! - Nancy Cadet Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:17:33 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-chicago-white-sox-sunday-defeat-sent-stock-market-tumbling-it-wasnt-the-debt-downgrade#comment-10645 The stock market plunge started around July 26. If you look at a chart of stock prices, you wouldn't be able to find the S&P downgrade. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=^GSPC&t=3m&l=on&z=l&q=l&c= - foosion Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:28:35 +0100