CBS, Unlike CNN App, Notes that Job Numbers 'Beat Expectations'

[See NewsBusters for more.] Many Americans, including younger people, get their news from phone apps. And if you think the bias of CNN is limited to the network, you’d be wrong. On Friday, strong July economic numbers came out with unemployment falling from 11.1 percent to 10.2 percent and 1.7 million new jobs have been created. All of this beat expectations. But you wouldn’t know that if you looked at the CNN news alert on your phone. Here’s what CNN blasted out to its app users: “U.S. jobs recovery takes a massive hit and is still down nearly 13 million jobs.” In contrast, in a live news break-in, CBS’s Jeff Glor on Friday declared, “Economists were expecting 1.6 million jobs would be added it's 1.78. That beat expectations.” Correspondent Jill Schlesinger noted, “July jobs created 1.76 million jobs created in the month of July. The unemployment rate actually ticked down.”