GDP Growth Downplayed, Real Income Growth Ignored by the Nets' Evening
July 30th, 2007 11:19 AM
Expanding on Media Research Center's July 30 CyberAlert and a similar post at NewsBusters (bold is mine): Nets Barely Notice Surge in GDP as They Focus on Dow Plunge The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts on Friday all devoted full stories to the fall in the stock market, touted as "the worst two-day point drop for the Dow in five years," but barely had time for a sentence about the 3.4 percent…
Nets Barely Notice Surge in GDP Growth as They Focus on Dow Plunge
July 27th, 2007 9:50 PM
The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts on Friday all devoted full stories to the fall in the stock market, touted as “the worst two-day point drop for the Dow in five years,” but barely had time for a sentence about the 3.4 percent second quarter jump in the GDP, the biggest in over a year. In fact, neither ABC nor NBC cited the specific 3.4 percent rise in the Gross Domestic Product, the measure…
Housing Prices Up from Year Ago, Yet CBS Highlights Comparison to Grea
July 25th, 2007 9:49 PM
On a day when the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported a rise in the price of homes so the average median price is above where it was a year ago, Wednesday's CBS Evening News featured a soundbite claiming “home price depreciation” unprecedented since the Great Depression. Apparently, reality wasn't negative enough for CBS, so they felt a need to add some embellishment. “The housing…
2007 Hurricane Forecast Reduced, Will Media Care
July 25th, 2007 10:59 AM
In May, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted an above average hurricane season, the media reported the announcement with a vigor. Two months later, with no serious hurricanes yet hitting the mainland, a private forecaster has reduced its tropical storm expectations. Less hurricanes should be good news, especially for folks along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, right…
Rather Intensifies Couric-bashing
July 24th, 2007 12:27 PM
Ex-CBS anchor Dan Rather is stepping up his sour grapes routine against Katie Couric, telling TVWeek magazine that it's only a matter of time before his former employer cancels the "Evening News" entirely:Dan Rather, who last month accused broadcast networks of dumbing down and tarting up their newscasts [a story which you heard here first], said he can foresee a time when media company…
Only Couric Notes Plame Setback and Scolding of Hillary; Olbermann Sen
July 20th, 2007 1:47 AM
Of the three broadcast network evening newscasts on Thursday, only the CBS Evening News reported how a federal judge threw out Valerie Plame's lawsuit and how a Pentagon official berated Senator Hillary Clinton, but anchor Katie Couric quickly moved on to “more positive news” for her in how most believe she will be elected President. Couric relayed how “the Pentagon is lashing out tonight at…
