Reporters, and the rest of us too for that matter, need to be educated in basic statistics and reasoning. Otherwise the output is utter bs. No news should be taken at face value, and I for one will start treating news in economy and sociology as rumors as long as they're not backed by scientists. Same as we would with harder sciences like psycology, ecology, biology, chemistry and physics.
No one should trust a Fox News journalist reporting on physics, and the case for economics is no different in practice.
