The government estimated that the U.S. grew at an annual rate of 3 percent in the second quarter. That was significantly higher than the 2.7 percent expected.
The good economic news was heralded as “impressive,” a “substantial acceleration” over the first quarter, “rosy,” and “without question good news for the economy.” But not by ABC, CBS and NBC evening news programs.
None of those programs mentioned the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s estimate of second quarter growth on Aug. 30. NBC Nightly News found time to point out that men are becoming fathers later in life.
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