More Twisted Headlines
Why the Word ONLY?
I continue to be amazed and irritated by how the mainstram media looks for the worst possible way to present any situation. This headline; “Isle Economy Grew Only 0.7 Percent Last Year” in today’s Honolulu Advertiser would invoke a completely different emotion if it were to be without the word “Only.” To listen to many people, “ANY” increase in 2008 over 2007 would be seen as good news. After all, 2007 was a banner year.
At one point the article reads, “The last time growth was lower was 10 years ago, when the economy was coming out of the economic doldrums that afflicted Hawai’i during the 1990s.” Now tell me, is that good or bad? I for one choose to like the idea that we may be heading in the same direction as we were when “coming out of economic doldrums.”
Besides that, I continue to find and highlight businesses that are not only doing good, but even better than ever before. To see one such company, just CLICK RIGHT HERE!
June 4th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Ron makes such a BIG DEAL out of ONLY one word. It’s ONLY a word, and the media is ONLY doing their job by reporting all of the news, not ONLY what some want to hear. If you don’t like it, the ONLY thing you have to do is ignore it, and ONLY those who want to read it will be the ONLY ones that do. I am ONLY trying to make a point here, but ONLY those who agree with me will accept it.
Here’s the ONLY reality; the economy sucks, and ONLY those with their heads in the sand don’t see it.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:15 am
The economy is re-tooling. We were spending too much on stuff we didn’t need. Prices have come down. The unemployment rate was more than double what it is now during the depression. The stock market gained back twenty percent of what it lost. Jobs are the last thing to rebound. If you make a list of all the blessing and all the frustrating things in life, our blessing will come out on top. Now is the time to pick ourselves up and re-invent ourselves.
I walked out of a store because the line to pay was too long.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Would anyone reading this want “Reality Check” on your payroll?