If you haven't gotten to check out the Business & Media Institute's new weekly video blog, The Biz Flog, this week's topic is the media's shift from reporting on "recession" to all-out "depression."

Complete with old-timey piano music and grainy film, this week BMI gives you our take on the many instances when reporters have compared the current economy to a time when soup lines and the Dust Bowl carried headlines.

The Business & Media Institute pointed out [1] in The Balance Sheet that so far in 2008, the media have made the comparison to the Great Depression seven times, building on a theme that dates back at least into 2006.

The Biz Flog is named for the beating business often takes in the media and runs weekly in BMI's The Balance Sheet [2] and as a channel [3] on EyeBlast.tv.