Christmas in the media


	Christmas in the media

n2sooners

12-23-2007 11:38 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ffefae7f-185f-4b84-aaed-431519d1d609/9D5844E4-AE96-4BD0-944E-389FF4FAE5D4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/12/23/what-time-year-it-2007-edition-part-3" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/12/23/what-time-year-it-2007-edition-part-3" style="font-size: 11px;">newsbusters.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/12/23/what-time-year-it-2007-edition-part-3">In 2005, I sensed that journalists in general prefer to call this time of the year in commerce that of "holiday shopping" instead of "Christmas shopping," but that when it came to people losing their jobs, they preferred to describe layoffs as relating to "Christmas."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/12/23/what-time-year-it-2007-edition-part-3"><P>My instincts were proven correct that year and in 2006, so I chose to track the same items this year to look for any noticeable change or trend.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/12/23/what-time-year-it-2007-edition-part-3"><P>Here are the grand totals for each of the three years:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/12/23/what-time-year-it-2007-edition-part-3"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/newsbusters.org/img/D3A99625-12AA-4350-A15C-345E324FF2FA" alt="Xmas2007CompTo2006and2005" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/12/23/what-time-year-it-2007-edition-part-3"><P>The association of Christmas with layoffs in 2007 occurred at over triple the rate (39.3% ÷ 12.2%) of its association with shopping. That is the highest ratio of the three years reviewed.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/12/23/what-time-year-it-2007-edition-part-3">So what I found in 2007 holds even more strongly than what I saw in 2006 and 2005, which is this -- It seems beyond dispute that there is a strong bias against using the word “Christmas”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2007/12/23/what-time-year-it-2007-edition-part-3">There is, however, one notable exception -- "Christmas" is a word that is much more acceptable to use when "Scrooge" employers are letting people go.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9D5844E4-AE96-4BD0-944E-389FF4FAE5D4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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