02 March 2009

Running in Fear from Imaginary Assailants

Ezra Klein at The American Prospect made a fantastic observation today regarding the Dow Jones Industrial Average:
Anyone else noticed that the Dow Jones Average now serves the same purpose on cable news shows that the terrorism alert level served between 2001 and 2004?"

I really wish the mass media could do a better job of framing economic (or political) issues instead of falling back on simple, athletically inspired metrics like "up" or "down," "ahead" or "behind."


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