American Hustle: NBC Spends 2X as Long on Movie Ratings as 250K Jobs
By Julia A. Seymour | November 2, 2018 9:34 PM EDT
With the election looming, the addition of a quarter million new jobs in October, grabbed headlines. But NBC Nightly News gave more than twice as much attention to the hot topic of celebrating Hollywood’s movie rating system.
On Nov. 2, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced 250,000 jobs had been added last month (roughly 60K higher than expected) and the unemployment rate remained at nearly a 50-year low of 3.7 percent. Wages also grew at a higher-than-expected pace, the fastest since 2009. ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts that night all described the numbers positively, but less important stories still dominated Nightly News.
Nightly News devoted twice as much time to a feature story explaining how Hollywood movies get their ratings and the anniversary of the Motion Picture Association of America as they did on President Trump having those great “jobs numbers at his back†as he was “barnstorming†for Republicans running in the midterm elections Nov. 6.
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