Comments on: Media Faulted For Coverage Of The Economy

Study Finds Coverage Of Economic Downturn In U.S. Lags Behind Public Interest

[trillion1]

I don''t need any media to tell me I''m earning less and paying more.

[creeper00]

"We can see little flashpoints in gas prices or a spike in joblessness but getting the whole picture is extremely difficult, in part because we''re depending on government collected data, which could often be three months later," said Project Director Tom Rosenstiel.

And we all know that this administration would NEVER stonewall on bad news.

[itgranny]

"The study found that reliance on government data to track the economy is leading to scattershot coverage that, at times, lags months behind actual economic conditions."

One might also ask why it''s taking the government "months" to figure out the data. By that time we''re in crisis mode and things are hard if not impossible to fix. There were rumblings 5-6 years ago about funky housing loans. If they would have shored up the loopholes back then, we would all have been in better shape. A year or so ago, there was a feeling that speculators had their fingers in the energy till, yet nobody did anything. If they would have slapped those folks back into place right away, our economy would no doubt be looking better. Think of all the money that went to energy rather than vacations, home improvements, new computers and tv''s, etc. And with all that stuff, JOBS.

I see no reason with the computers they have today why they can''t have the raw numbers reported on the 1st and these numbers available the 2nd or 3rd of the month. Businesses do.

[beehive21-2009]

The Gov stated we were near a recession ? where they live, the rest of experienced it for three years prior? Nobody believes the Media its ran by the Republicans and there band of thieves.Big Oil running the White House,we would like too hear what the next President intends to do about Big Oil running are country or will it be pay me off,too.Greedy fools.

[wardoglrs]

Administration

[wogerwabbit]

At times, this has meant that reporters were writing about weakening economic trends at the very moment that conditions were starting to improve or vice versa.

That''s because they''re stenographers, not reporters. Then we have major windbags like Hannity, O''Reilly and Limbaugh repeating as gospel every bit of subterfuge and sleight of hand that the neconazi party propaganda ministers throw at us. That dam liberal media!

[terrapin78]

That is what happens when one relys on data from the BU$H ADMINiSTRATIUON. Bu$hies will do anything to keep the reality of everything in the shadows. That way they could say, like Bart Simp0son, "I didn''t do it!"

[omega39-2009]

"We can see little flashpoints in gas prices or a spike in joblessness but getting the whole picture is extremely difficult, in part because we''re depending on government collected data, which could often be three months later," said Project Director Tom Rosenstiel.

A) people don''t need the press to tell them they are being squeezed.

B) the bull-plop being put out by the government is just that, bull-plop.