Posted on 07/05/2005 3:51:35 PM PDT by CorbyCard
Consumers are confident that the economy is doing well, better than any time in three years, but ABC and NBC didn’t think enough of that June 28, 2005, news to even report it. For ABC, this is part of an ongoing trend of focusing on negative economic news. In the three years covered by the latest consumer confidence report, ABC has covered negative numbers twice as often as positive.
ABC had no trouble detailing the downside of the economic outlook with a lengthy list of adjectives, describing consumer confidence as: “waning,” “falling,” “taken a hit,” “dropping,” “spiraling down,” “way down,” “terribly low,” and “going down dramatically.” Overall, ABC covered consumer confidence 41 times in three years, but 28 of those stories were negative and just 13 positive. The network’s coverage leaned heavily toward those negative numbers. ABC covered 11 out of 20 of the months where consumer confidence was down but just 6 out of 16 where the index was up.
The Consumer Confidence Index is the result of a monthly survey done for the non-profit Conference Board. The survey asks five questions about the economy to a sample of 5,000 U.S. households. As those numbers went down in six of the seven months from June through December 2002, ABC covered them 25 times on all of its news shows.
However, as the economy has steadily improved, the network’s coverage of consumer confidence numbers has declined. In 2003, the network did nine stories as the index showed six of 12 months positive, with a steady upward trend for the year. ABC did just five stories in 2004 as the overall trend upward continued. That year had six months that were positive, five negative and one unchanged. There have been only two stories so far in 2005.
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What is this ABC News the article refers to?
One thing conservatives have to get through their heads is:
No one cares what the MSM says anymore!!! Conservatives are obssessed with how unfair the MSM is. So what? Their ratings are in the tanks and withing 10 years there will be no more nightly news.
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