MEGAN MCARDLE AND STUART BUCK have an op-ed in The Examiner on media coverage of the economy:

It often gets dicey for readers when journalists, who are rarely math majors, play with numbers and then publish misleading or mistaken conclusions. It happened Labor Day when the Detroit Free Press published a horrifying map showing huge losses in household income across America. Horrifying and totally wrong, that is.

Read the whole thing.