Lame attempt by NY Times

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There was a lame attempt on the front page of the NY Sunday Times last weekend to play down the property crisis. The lead read “Drop foreseen …dip would be a first …won’t erase gains.” They must have dug it up from 2-3 years ago just to fill a space, which is pretty common practice.

[patb]

The Washington Post tried some lame story too over the weekend

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/25/AR2007082500214.html

“As usual it matters where”, a variation on the location, location story.

fav quote “xYou’ve got to admire their guts, at least. And in the end, you might marvel at their timing.

On Aug. 16, the same day financial markets across much of the world were coming unglued, Erin Fuller and her husband, Michael Leurdijk, listed for sale their three-bedroom bungalow on N. Edgewood Street in Arlington.”

and

“In Arlington, Fuller and Leurdijk may have happened to hit the market’s turn dead-on. In July, the median price for a single-family resale home in the county increased nearly 11 percent compared with a year earlier, according to Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, the local multiple listing service. That was the first significant increase since prices headed south in July 2006. (Technically, there was a price increase of 0.2 percent in December, but that’s barely enough to register.) Sales volume went up during July in Arlington as well. The number of sales was 7 percent higher than one year earlier.”

Do the piggintonians want to explain what’s wrong with the numbers?

[patb]

The Washington Post tried some lame story too over the weekend

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/25/AR2007082500214.html

“As usual it matters where”, a variation on the location, location story.

fav quote “xYou’ve got to admire their guts, at least. And in the end, you might marvel at their timing.

On Aug. 16, the same day financial markets across much of the world were coming unglued, Erin Fuller and her husband, Michael Leurdijk, listed for sale their three-bedroom bungalow on N. Edgewood Street in Arlington.”

and

“In Arlington, Fuller and Leurdijk may have happened to hit the market’s turn dead-on. In July, the median price for a single-family resale home in the county increased nearly 11 percent compared with a year earlier, according to Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, the local multiple listing service. That was the first significant increase since prices headed south in July 2006. (Technically, there was a price increase of 0.2 percent in December, but that’s barely enough to register.) Sales volume went up during July in Arlington as well. The number of sales was 7 percent higher than one year earlier.”

Do the piggintonians want to explain what’s wrong with the numbers?

[patb]

The Washington Post tried some lame story too over the weekend

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/25/AR2007082500214.html

“As usual it matters where”, a variation on the location, location story.

fav quote “xYou’ve got to admire their guts, at least. And in the end, you might marvel at their timing.

On Aug. 16, the same day financial markets across much of the world were coming unglued, Erin Fuller and her husband, Michael Leurdijk, listed for sale their three-bedroom bungalow on N. Edgewood Street in Arlington.”

and

“In Arlington, Fuller and Leurdijk may have happened to hit the market’s turn dead-on. In July, the median price for a single-family resale home in the county increased nearly 11 percent compared with a year earlier, according to Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, the local multiple listing service. That was the first significant increase since prices headed south in July 2006. (Technically, there was a price increase of 0.2 percent in December, but that’s barely enough to register.) Sales volume went up during July in Arlington as well. The number of sales was 7 percent higher than one year earlier.”

Do the piggintonians want to explain what’s wrong with the numbers?

[SHILOH]

I happend on Bill Moyer’s “Buying the War,” on PBS this weekend. It’s not a new doc but I hadn’t see it before. It showed, combined with other NYT editorial debacles that have happened in recent years, the NYT doesn’t deserve it’s credibility status. The other paper made to look sloppy was the Washington Post.

[SHILOH]

I happend on Bill Moyer’s “Buying the War,” on PBS this weekend. It’s not a new doc but I hadn’t see it before. It showed, combined with other NYT editorial debacles that have happened in recent years, the NYT doesn’t deserve it’s credibility status. The other paper made to look sloppy was the Washington Post.

[SHILOH]

I happend on Bill Moyer’s “Buying the War,” on PBS this weekend. It’s not a new doc but I hadn’t see it before. It showed, combined with other NYT editorial debacles that have happened in recent years, the NYT doesn’t deserve it’s credibility status. The other paper made to look sloppy was the Washington Post.

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