Henry Hazlitt was a notable journalist earlier in this century. His most famous book, Economics in One Lesson , teaches that good policy analysis requires looking at the long run as well as the short run, and the impact on all groups, not just one group.
Some people benefit greatly while a small cost is imposed on the general public.
On net, economy-wide, little has changed. We have simply shifted money from one place to another - a shell game. But the public and the press typically focus only on the benefits of the policy - the jobs that are created. But aside from that, the benefits are, by nature, more obvious than the costs. The job creation is concentrated in a small, obvious group, but the job destruction is more dispersed and subtle.