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Media Choose Ideology Over Reality, as Jobs Go Unfilled

Media Choose Ideology Over Reality, as Jobs Go Unfilled
A pedestrian walks by a Now Hiring sign outside of a Lamps Plus store in San Francisco, Calif., on June 3, 2021. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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A few weeks ago, writing for the Commentary website about the Left’s attempts to deny that over-generous handouts by the Biden “stimulus” package can have had anything to do with the unexpectedly slow drop in the unemployment figures and widespread labor shortages, Noah Rothman wrote this: “When self-evident reality conflicts with ideology, ideology tends to lose that fight.”
James Bowman
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James Bowman is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The author of “Honor: A History,” he is a movie critic for The American Spectator and the media critic for The New Criterion.
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