A May 30 CNN report cited critics of a Senate global-warming bill who characterized opponents as "dead wrong" about the impact the legislation would have on consumers and workers.
On June 3, ABC "Good Morning America" contributor Mellody Hobson noted some positive opportunities in an economy that much of the media is criticizing.
Business & Media Institute Vice President Dan Gainor discussed the new BMI study "The Great Media Depression" with Fox Business Network host Neil Cavuto on June 2.
In the face of less-than-depressing economic news, the NBC "Today" show created another fake economic indicator, this time related to pawn shops. From the June 2, 2008, broadcast.
NBC's "Nightly News" used rising Spam sales as an indication of a bad economy, even though Spam costs more per ounce than many fresh meat products.
ABC's "Good Morning America" scolded credit card companies over arbitration clauses and used an extreme example to represent average cases.
ABC's "World News With Charles Gibson" offered a curiously balanced and contextualized report on gasoline prices May 27.
NBC investigative correspondent Lisa Myers reported on increased use of food banks by middle class Americans on the May 28, 2008 'Today' show.
"Nightly News" reporter Rehema Ellis blamed California's education funding problems on the current economic slowdown, even though funding problems in the state predate the downturn.
Business & Media Institute Vice President Dan Gainor discussed a new report on the media's coverage of economic downturn on "Fox & Friends" May 27.
On May 20, NBC's "Today Show" reported on $3.80-per-gallon gasoline by showing b-roll of a station selling regular for $4.15.
That's the image painted by J.P. Freire, managing editor of the American Spectator, in a discussion on Fox News about what to expect when the Democratic presidential race goes to the convention
NBC "Today" show host Matt Lauer grilled ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerman on gas prices during an interview on the May 15 broadcast.
NBC turned to the federal government, rather than existing private sector solutions, for answers on salvaged car safety on the May 12, 2008, broadcast.
A May 8 ABC "Nightline" report featured food industry critic Michael Pollan attacking processed foods -- and provided no input from the people he attacked.
The "Nightly News" celebrated the closing of a Home Depot store -- which means 80 lost jobs for a small Vermont town -- on May 7, 2008.
A witness to the 1969 recording of the peace anthem "Give Peace a Chance" is now selling John Lennon's handwritten lyrics at auction. She expects nearly $400,000.
David Gergen said Barack Obama's minister, Jeremiah Wright, is an electoral sideshow and distraction. "It's a very marginal piece of who Barack Obama is and what he stands for," Gergen said.
CBS's Leslie Stahl interviewed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, whose conservative views have made him a lightning rod for controversy in liberal quarters.
Bill Moyers interviewed Jeremiah Wright in April, but instead of asking serious question, he used the interview as a chance to bash America.
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell talked about media coverage of "recession" on the May 2 episode of CNBC's "Kudlow and Company."
CNBC's Erin Burnett said positive growth in gross domestic product in early 2008 doesn't matter, using the new "Craigslist Indicator" as a sign of a bad economy.
NBC "Today Show" co-host Matt Lauer said he has traveled 21,000 miles in just the first three days of the current installment of his "Where in the World" ratings gimmick.
CNBC host Jim Cramer joined a small club of broadcast journalists on April 25 when he connected government mandates for ethanol to worldwide food inflation on the NBC "Today" show.
CNBC's Carl Quintanilla hyped rice "rationing" on the April 24 NBC "Today Show." But his colleague, Erin Burnett, provided a little bit of perspective.