US job growth soars (or does it?)

There’s a joke here somewhere.

CNN is currently running a poll: “Do you think the U.S. job market is improving?”

Current results: 46% (49747 votes) say yes and 54% (57750 votes) say no.

What’s more interesting is that the results page (linked above) offers a “Related” link that says U.S. job growth soars (don’t click that link, read on).

Except that the link is 404.

Hrm.

Is this a belated April Fool’s day joke? Is the job growth soaring or not? Has the White House infiltrated CNN to spread propaganda that the job market is improving?

Nope, thanks to Google I found the story: U.S. job growth soars (printer friendly version). If you examine the URLs it is easy to see what what happened was that someone put the wrong hostname in (www.cnn.com instead of money.cnn.com). Accidents happen.

Well it was fun(ny) while it lasted. At least to me.