[1rudeboy]

You wrote, "and the media reports only one of them." I can give you plenty of examples where they report both. Showing me examples where the media reports one and not the other proves nothing. In short, you made a sweeping generalization that is not true.

And by pointing it out to you, I am not saying the media is "objective," "well-meaning," or "fully informing." You simply made it up.

[sgtyork]

Of course it was a sweeping generalization. But it is certainly more true than the obverse which is your position.

However, you can’t show me plenty of examples of the what American’s call ‘the media’ publishing both CPI metrics, I asked you to and you only posted 1 and asked me to wait until April. Remember there are thousands of home town papers, local radio and tv stations and economic reporting has been degraded by the decline of the media in general.

Against my generalization of the entire media you pointed to a microscopic, highly specialized sub-set of the media partially aimed at the very economic professionals who exploit American’s ignorance.

I’ve seen you post many times and it seems to me that you like to argue for the sake of arguing as in this case.