Expose Media Missteps on BLS Firing Coverage

A CNBC anchor warned that firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner over a single month’s weak jobs data isn’t about market integrity — it’s political manipulation. But much of the media have ducked real scrutiny, presenting it instead as routine turnover.

This isn’t normal — it’s a worrying pattern in which political pressures threaten impartial economic reporting. News outlets must call it what it is: politicizing data.

Add your name to demand honest coverage. Journalists should expose political interference in economic institutions — not gloss over it.