I do think there's a bit of a faulty premise to the start of the article. > A responsible news media has a lot of jobs, but here’s one of the most important: g

I do think there's a bit of a faulty premise to the start of the article. > A responsible news media has a lot of jobs, but here’s one of the most important: giving audiences an accurate image of the state of the world around them. Most "News" orgs aren't News Orgs. They're entertainment companies with a goal of selling ad space. I.e. the weather channels routinely overestimates the chances of a weather event because it gets you to keep paying attention. Painting an accurate imagine can be at odds with generating revenue and so an inaccurate image will be painted. Then we get into probably another fault premise that the economy as graphed by a single metric is fine. There was all this talk about a K-shaped recovery post covid. It's very possible your single metric will look at good but there can still be a lot of people doing worse as long as it's outweighed by a few people doing very well. The article had a very interesting comment one crime though about if homelessness counted. I think it'd be a bit more interesting to ask if immigration counted. But the guy definitely hits the nail on the head in saying that nobody is reporting crime correctly in the news so it's not a surprise that people listening to it don't have a clue.