Very interesting comments today from CBS News business correspondent Anthony Mason about the limited prism through which most journalists view big business in America:

    I think too often the business beat is "what are gas prices today?" and "who did those evil corporations fire?" or "what bad CEO is making too much money?" and business is almost viewed as the big bad boogeyman that's not doing enough.

    But the fact of the matter is, business is kind the fundamental underlying structure of society that makes it go, and you need to kind of look at it that way.

    there is certainly a lack of understanding...there might have been an institutional bias.

    I think a lot of people who come into journalism didn’t know much about business, and weren’t that interested.

    And I think that’s part of the problem – most of us are on the employee side of things, and not on the employer side. And there’s another side to it.