Not that the media noticed

The Dow is up by almost 300 points from last week. It still has 220 point to go to get back to 2 weeks ago. However, if you scroll down the page, you can see similar up and down trends going back through the life of the report. This activity looks more like "normal" than it does "recession".

Could it be because we are in an election cycle, the Iraqis are taking over their own security, Clinton's war in Kosovo is still being fought that the media has to....errr...."frame" a growing economy with reduced unemployment as "bleak"?