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		watwut 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US economy shrank 0.5% in the first quarter, worse... Except that mainstream media do use FRED data ... so. It is also possible to try to paint journalists as worst then they are ... that is good for actual quacks that to not like the good data.

firesteelrain 5 months ago [–]

I never said journalists don’t use FRED. The issue is which metrics get foregrounded and how they’re framed. The data’s out there, but the signal-to-noise ratio in most news cycles is terrible.

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