AP/Jennier Loven, Under Fire

This is not the first time that the Blogosphere has taken J. Loven to task: See for example: Joe Kelly's The Sake of Argument from last year.


Letter to the editor seem to take her to task as well:



This is from Dec, 2003:

Today was my first visit to your website and I wanted to peruse the content to see what more there was on discussion of the Patriot Act, an unquestionable abomination in my never humble opinion.



I visited the Point Blank page and saw a discussion on Bush and the economy (BUSH AND THE ECONOMY 11.18.03) and could not help but respond to the comments I saw being made by Jennifer Loven of the AP. Her statement that the economic downturn did not begin until March 2001 is flatly false. It actually began in February of 2000 and gained momentum throughout 2000. The March 2001 point is when the effects were becoming obvious on the market and on public sentiment.



Yes, I understand that Ms. Loven's point was to bash Bush and truth had no place in her diatribe, but, at least she could get her facts straight before shooting her mouth off on a subject for which she is NO expert.The .com bust, Greenspan's constant raising of the interest rate, followed up with 9/11 - all of these factors were the causes of the economic downturn from which we have not yet recovered. Is Bush to blame in there anywhere?


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Letters to the Editor
Published December 17, 2003
St. Petersburg Times