I should add that the media notoriously gets economists wrong. Most just don't know better, but some are plainly partisan. Even foundations like Heritage (but I don't know Heritage specifically) will improperly use data to try to make a political point. For example, the graph you posted, a lot of conservative organizations will frame economics in such a way that they say "See, look how the inequality increases during Obama years. Proof that Obama's policies are bad economics." Whereas unaffiliated academic economists, like Bryan Caplan, would never say that data set demonstrates such, despite the fact that he thinks Obama's economic policies are awful.