When the networks attempt to drive President Trump’s approval ranking as little as attainable, they keep away from presenting any constructive information. Within the first time period, they routinely skipped excellent news. Now we have compiled “5 Financial Information the Media Don’t Need You to Know” as we head into midterm elections. The excellent news is Not Information.
In my 1996 guide Sample of Deception, I recounted how the networks aerobically denied that financial development beneath George HW Bush was actual, that the GDP was some sort of phantasm. In our 2019 guide Unmasked, we listed all the great financial information that the networks prevented. That is nonetheless taking place. NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and CNS Information Managing Editor Craig Bannister analyze the great financial information.
Let’s begin with this one: Trump’s 2025 tax minimize invoice lowered the typical family’s taxes by practically three thousand {dollars}. Or a minimum of stored Trump tax cuts from expiring. The networks hate tax cuts, and routinely faux they’re only for the rich, when they are much broader than that.
Additionally: Inflation is decrease throughout President Donald Trump’s second time period in workplace than it was throughout the Biden Administration. However because it accumulates, the costs are nonetheless excessive.
Regardless of the battle with Iran, the worth of gasoline throughout Trump’s second time period has by no means come near its spike throughout Biden’s time within the White Home. The common gasoline worth in 2022 is near the present common, and it went over $5 a gallon that 12 months. Reporters routinely confer with “hovering” gasoline costs.
Mortgage charges greater than doubled beneath Biden, however fell in Trump’s first time period and has held regular throughout his second. That is nonetheless an enormous downside on the “affordability” agenda.
Then there’s excellent news: actual GDP development for the second quarter accelerated at 2.2 p.c, which is way increased than the initially reported 1.5 p.c. The primary quarter GDP was additionally revised as much as 2.5 p.c from 2.2 p.c. Networks skipped the revisions.
In non-economic information: There’s really nothing sillier for Jake Tapper to lecture about than “the cocoon of tribalism.” Anti-Trump tribalism is the hourly components on the Cable “Information” Community. “THE LURE OF TRIBALISM IS PULLING AMERICANS APART.” Tapper thinks he can denounce “sure of us in ideological media” for spewing hate as if CNN is not “ideological” or spewing hate.
President Trump is taking after Fox Information on Fact Social for not selling his rallies sufficient, as he did with the Midterm Conference. However Fox is bringing on Karoline Leavitt as a contributor. Why hasn’t Trump named a brand new Press Secretary but?
Jack Smith instructed the Senate final week he was not political, after which this weekend, he confirmed up at leftist live performance in a No Kings T-shirt. Tom Morello of Rage Towards The Machine fame organized this “Energy to the Folks” live performance and stated on stage: “This land doesn’t belong to the billionaires and the oligarchs. It doesn’t belong to the racists and the warmongers. It doesn’t belong to the fascists and the would-be dictators. Brothers and sisters, this land belongs to you and me. Energy to the individuals!” Morello has critical affection for the Chinese language Communist Social gathering, however his web value places him within the One P.c.
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