Journalists must be able to understand technical accounting terms like "mark to market" and "naked short selling" and convey them simply to the public.

"...Another issue is people like bankers, real estate folks and other businesses have a great vested interest in only telling the good news and not referring to the bad news, and trying to spin it in a way that serves their bottom line," said Your View executive producer, Kent Collins. "A fourth issue for journalists trying to tell their story is the politicians who will say at times what matters to the audience at the moment. Finally, we are the victims or prisoners of our own time limitations. A two minute story, which is typical for tv news is hardly enough time to tell the great complexities of some of these issues in the economy."

Some people have complained the national media aren't covering the bailout plan protests going on outside the capitol building.

Viewer Matt Badalamti said he would like to see more competence.

"...It's consumer competence. If the media didn't skew everything then there would be none of that. I think that is how a lot of this got started. The media skewed everything. People got scared. Now nobody wants to spend their money, it started with the housing market and it just went on from there."