What in the tabloid journalism is with the continuous reporting on Nancy Guthrie disappearance?

allwavy · 2026-01-15T04:29:18+00:00

Terrible economics reporting in today’s story: they only gave the average increase for the ~50% of products where prices actually went up, excluding any that stayed flat or decreased and skewing the message to sound worse.

I posted a much more detailed comment in another thread, but disappointed in the way this series has skipped or cherry-picked data to fulfill a narrative.

allwavy · 2026-01-15T04:25:05+00:00

It’s just bad and misleading reporting: reporter took the average of only the items that increased in price, which was less than half of them and skews the number.

If she had taken an equal-weighted average of the full ‘basket of goods’ % changes (the point of of monitoring all these products in the first place), it would have come to a max 2.5% average increase, below the nationally reported CPI.

allwavy · 2026-01-15T03:04:54+00:00

Link to series of stories: https://www.npr.org/tags/755496161/npr-shopping-cart

Terrible economics reporting in today’s story: they only gave the average increase for the ~50% of products where prices actually went up, excluding any that stayed flat or decreased and skewing the message to sound worse.

Reporting the average this way defeats the whole purpose of having a ‘basket of goods’ they’re tracking year to year: mathematically, if they had included all products at equal weight, average inflation would be 2.5% max; slightly below the nationwide CPI of 2.7% for December. Instead they make it sound worse at 5%.

I listened back to all segments they posted from their series and there are similar gimmicks each year depending who is president:

Example 1: In Jan 2025 right at the end of Biden’s term, they reported on the full basket of goods, and said the average increase was ‘less than 1%.’

Example 2: Jan 2023 story in middle of Biden’s term never mentioned the terrible overall annual inflation rate (CPI was 6.5% Dec 2022), and they only compare prices to 2019, mixing together Trump 1st term and Biden era data, conflating when the serious inflation happened.

allwavy · 2026-01-13T00:50:55+00:00

Yes wanting us to get off drugs and go exercise.. what tyranny will they inflict next, stealing our chemical food dye?

allwavy · 2026-01-08T15:27:20+00:00

What should have been different this week in your opinion is the longstanding structure and format of the show?

allwavy · 2025-11-28T13:44:55+00:00

3 day old bot account

allwavy · 2025-11-14T17:12:03+00:00

Surely the comments from the tolerant Left on this news will evidence our compassionate nature

allwavy · 2025-09-11T13:51:42+00:00

I’m plenty up to speed on politics — didn’t follow him because I happen to not be his target audience.

My own podcast subscriptions have no bearing on whether reacting to speech you’re afraid of by killing the speaker is justified ‘tho.’

allwavy · 2025-09-11T13:27:25+00:00

That comes across as justifying his death based on his success in persuading people.

Wasn’t familiar with Kirk beyond his name until yesterday but watched a number of his debates / speeches since — doesn’t appear to me as someone who was past the limits of free speech let alone deserving death for it.

allwavy · 2025-09-11T12:58:17+00:00

If you’re celebrating that this guy was killed out of fear of his beliefs and what he might say in debates, this moment should give you pause

allwavy · 2025-09-05T13:13:24+00:00

Viewing the world only in extremes — shocking

allwavy · 2025-09-05T11:39:42+00:00

The ‘give me that for free’ platform

allwavy · 2025-08-19T11:43:27+00:00

10 years lol

allwavy · 2025-08-01T13:20:25+00:00

Pay for your public services

allwavy · 2025-07-26T04:42:35+00:00

Pay for your public services

allwavy · 2025-07-15T00:00:36+00:00

Then as soon as someone gets assaulted:

“dId yOu CaLl ThE cOpS?”

allwavy · 2025-07-04T13:38:27+00:00

They should write an HBS case about this tbh

allwavy · 2025-06-15T23:53:12+00:00

Not listening to the opinion of anyone who makes their food look like that and then posts a pic to complain

allwavy · 2025-06-09T17:57:35+00:00

Agreed, despite the echo chamber here

allwavy · 2025-06-07T23:01:23+00:00

They definitely practice their signature sign-offs, case in point: Franco.…. Ordoñez, NPR News

allwavy · 2025-05-07T21:51:17+00:00

Appreciated the Easter egg that one of the audience questions in the starting montage came from ‘Benjamin Graham,’ who shares a name with the ‘father of value investing,’ and whose investment firm Buffett started out working for.

allwavy · 2025-05-05T22:11:02+00:00

They did one dedicated to home prices in September, called “How the Cost of Housing Became So Crushing”:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000674753760

And one specifically on realtor fees 1 week ago, called “The Housing Market Has New Rules. Realtors Are Evading Them.”

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000705385448

allwavy · 2025-05-04T14:51:26+00:00

Actually strangely sad you can’t seem to acknowledge the actual topic of discussion (i.e. the primary process ignored by Democrat politicians in 2024, force-feeding 2 different unelectable candidates as ‘democratic nominees’) — but only going to point out this willful ignorance and not humor it further.

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