Saturday, May 31, 2014

Media outlets work overtime to spin bad economic data

The U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis revised the numbers downward from prior estimates to show the nation’s GDP contracted at an annual rate of negative 1 percent. It was the first negative quarter since 2011, and one more three-month stretch in the red would put the U.S. is back in recession. But nightly newscasts sought to present the data as a blip, blaming it on the weather — if they mentioned it at all.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/30/media-outlets-work-overtime-to-spin-bad-economic-data/

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