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    Fox News Uses Misleading Unemployment Chart

    A few weeks ago, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics first reported that the unemployment rate had dropped to 8.6 percent in November (the lowest rate in more than 2 years), a Fox News graphic rounded up to 9 percent.

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    by Villain

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    Here's what you see on TV...

    Media Matters / Via mediamatters.org

    Here's what it's really showing, if you actually examine the chart...

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