Perhaps the OP thinks that Evan Davis being friendly and sympathetic to millionaires in presenting Dragon's Den has a conflict with his job of being neutral as an economics journalist.
The misunderstanding is in thinking that there is such a thing as a neutral economics journalist.
Economics, much as it would like to pretend it is, is not a science. It is a sub-set of politics. There are various branches of economics that relate to the left (Keynsian) and right (Friedmanite) and varieties in between and beyond.
I suspect that some of the so called economic experts rolled out on the media do not even understand the facts of the previous sentence. They will have been trained in the currently fashionable theories and possibly not even introduced to the opposing ones. That I fear means that they sincerely present as 'facts', what are really opinions. A few spreadsheets, charts and graphs look very plausible but there is never any questioning of the basic premises.
For example all the economics pundits I have seen on the television over the last few months accept the idea that Britain, and other countries need to make spending cuts. This is just an idea that has been fed into the media by politicians. It is not objectively true. Our spending in relation to GDP is not at an historically high level. We have a recession and lots of unemployment. The answer is not to make cuts but to keep spending and even borrowing. A government can borrow (from its own citizens) at a rellatively low rate because it is a secure investment. At a time of insecurity many people will be happy to lend at a fairly low but fixed rate to a borrower who is more secure than any bank.
Sadly the ideas of making spending cuts have been hawked around Europe and worldwide and most European countries have plans to make such cuts. Each country wants to make itself more 'competitive' but cutting the cost of its wage earners, both in wage income and social benefit income. The problem is that each country is making cuts competitively with the others and there is a 'race to the bottom' to use an over used phrase. The produces an international recession. Interestingly Barack Obama is concerned that Europe may be going too far in its cut backs. He wants to be able to continue to sell American goods here.
Of course I am being as un-neutral in my description as Evan Davis and the other economists are in their narratives. But I wanted to put the opposite view. That won't come from any of the economists who want to be able to get jobs with the city institutions when their spell as pundits to the media ends.
Dragon's Den is sick, but it exposes the way that capitalism works.
