Media encourage people to view themselves as victims of the economy, looking for handouts from the next president.

'Hardball' host forgets how it was like when he worked for Jimmy Carter.

Golodryga: 'If Americans are saying goodbye to fast food, could we be saying hello to a recession?'

Newsweek cover story 'The U.S. Economy Faces the Guillotine' gives a bleak one-sided view ... but what media outlet doesn't?

Anchor Kiran Chetry says CEO severance package agreed to by company's boards of directors a 'disconnect with Main Street.'

Gas mileage of the Smart Car doesn't impress anchor Lester Holt, says 'it should be getting 50 to 60 miles a gallon.'

Comedy Central host suggest economic turnaround will take two decades; CNN financial analyst says recession is a sure bet.

SocGen fraud may have caused European stock market fall that inspired Fed's emergency rate cut last week; Economist: 'There is way too much panic.'

'Today' host accosts shoppers at Manhattan grocery store to berate them about using plastic and paper bags.

Coverage is not concerned with the cost to taxpayers, but if checks can be cut in time and whether recipients will spend or save their 'rebates.'

Report on new FDA requirements for experimental drug testing ignores possibility of higher costs, includes no industry input.

Despite gloomy prognosis of the economy, unemployment is not at recessionary levels.

Former reporter and 'World News Sunday' anchor advises Democratic candidates what issues to focus on and explains why he yelled down Reagan.