There was this line in a Saturday story in The News & Observer:
The state has been laying off workers since the recession hit.
I guess the editors and reporters had quizzical looks on their faces when they saw Don Carrington’s story at Carolina Journal Online this morning:
Public sector employment levels in North Carolina have been stable since the start of the recession in December 2007. It would take a loss of 63,000 government jobs to match the nearly 9 percent net loss that has occurred in the private sector during that time.
It’s hard sometimes for journalists to be immune from government propaganda. It’s even harder when journalists are part of it.
