Mainstream Scream: ABC ignores bad economy

Published July 30, 2012 4:00am ET



This week’s Mainstream Media Scream goes to the ABC World News which on Friday was the lone network to ignore the government’s report of dismal second quarter GDP growth of 1.5 percent. Anchor Josh Elliot, however, did make time for a story about Wall Street’s soaring profits and how the five second rule regarding dropped food is false–really.

Meanwhile CBS and Olympics-focused NBC devoted time to the economic bad news, with CBS reporter Bob Schieffer calling the numbers “dismal.”

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