Bad economy! Bad, bad, bad economy!
Business & Media Institute director Dan Gainor appeared on ‘Fox Business Live' November 15 to discuss the media's focus on the negative parts of the economy. Two of the networks, NBC and CBS led with positive news of the year's second best day of the year, but then focused on high gas prices this week.
"It goes beyond ‘it bleeds, it leads.' This is a consistent theme we've been watching for several years...Any time you have any sort of negative news they hype that and any sort of positive news, they undercut it," said Gainor.
Gainor added that there is always a political way to how the network cover business, pointing to the Business & Media Institute's special report, "One Economy, Two Spins", which found the media's coverage more favorable of the Clinton economy than the Bush economy.
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Economy is not bad.......Inflation is what is bad
November 15, 2007 - 18:10 ET by Lame CherryThe United States economy is chugging along quite well considering what it is dealing with, but what is bad is inflation caused by oil monopolicy by the cartels, money printing policy by the cartels and border buster policy by the cartels having 40 million problem illegals driving prices up.
Want to lower gas prices? Charge illegals 5 dollars a gallon or deport them all as they are burning up the US supply. Stop the border busters from buying 200 million gallons of gas a day.......and the US gas prices go down to 1.65 a gallon.
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Too True
November 15, 2007 - 21:55 ET by Kirk TurnerI listen to a local station that has the "Bloomberg market minute" on every hour. It is insane how they have characterized the economy over the past few years. They always use the same tactic: They introduce the minute with some dire news, then introduce some anonymous "business analyist" who asserts that the economy is going to you-know-where in a handbasket.
I was at my son's little league game, and one of the parents said, "things have been bad on us since the economy crashed." Some of the other parents and I looked at each other with disbelief. What channel is she watching? It is obvious who watches the mainstream media. We have virtual full employment at the same time we have 20 million illegal aliens, and the economy is bad?? The stock market is above 1300 during a housing slump and when gas costs three-dollars a gallon. Can you say ROBUST ECONOMY? Where do they find these people who think the economy is bad?
When things get really bad, as they always do from time to time, people are going to realize how good it has been for the past five years.