This article from FoxNews .com is a perfect example of how the Fox Cinematic Universe works.
The editorial board (not the news reporters, the opinion columnists) of The Wall Street Journal (Fox's corporate cousin) published an op-ed attacking Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
Then Fox runs a "news" article about that opinion piece, promoting it's claims as if they were factual.
Then Fox's other reporters and opinion hosts, and others in the right-wing media echo chamber will pick up THIS "reporting" as if it's news. And suddenly the story is "Alvin Braagg is facing criticism over Trump indictment."
But where the criticism coming from? Legal theorists? Historians? Scholars? Law enforcement?
Nope... the criticism is coming from Trump's political supporters, working for political organizations pretending to be news outlets. This simply isn't news!
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Despite modest negative revisions in the prior two months (-28k), the December #jobsreport beat expectations on job growth for the past month at +223,000 new jobs create as the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%. bls.gov/news.release/a…
It's a strong jobs report but closely aligned with expectations, which were for +200k last month. The unemployment rate was expected to move from 3.6 to 3.7 and instead moved to 3.5. Basically, it's in line with what was expected, which is why the Fed is still mad.
Professor Wolfers is smarter than me and he's putting a high gloss finish on the jobs data. You can definitely make an unambiguously good case! Anyone who says this is a bad report (or that it was expected to be bad) is stupid or just flat lying.
I just don't understand this. Democratic voters *hate* her. If Dems stand back and let her go up against the GOP, she loses. Whereas, if they run their own candidate, she comes in a distant third. What logic prevents the Democrats from running their own candidate?
Campaigns are bigger than just the outcome. Who is going to train Democratic volunteers and organize activists in a key swing state over the next 2 years? Who is going to motivate grassroots donors to sustain the state party? A person who isn't a Democrat?
Arizona is not Alaska or Utah. Everyone making that comparison is building in a pretty wild assumption. Dems might stand by and pray for an independent candidate in Nebraska in 2024 like they did in Kansas in 2014... but Arizona?
Here's how American news outlets framed the announcement from disgraced ex-president Donald Trump that he would once again seek elected office 🧵 1/
The Washington Post highlights that Trump faces "multiple criminal investigations" and notes that he refused to accept the outcome of the 2020 election, which he lost. 2/
NPR tags Trump for refusing to concede and fomenting a deadly insurrection. Keep it up. 3/
On Election Night, CNN’s political panel was literally calling for Joe Biden to retire.
Tonight, they’ve finally caught up to the news that Democrats won.
When on November 9, a full 24 hours after it became clear that Democrats had the best midterm in generations… the CNN panel thought Biden was toast. More than that, they were angry that he wasn’t more conciliatory to the fascists.
It’s not just that CNN’s expert panel didn’t seem to notice the election happening all around them, they also seemed to think we lived in a completely different county with an opposition party that wants to accomplish things that help people.
I have to thank @chrislhayes for broadcasting the most satisfying 2-minutes of television I've watched today. A perfect encapsulation of what Fox News has looked like over the past several months.
I was commenting with my colleagues in the past few days how Fox News was *really* out over their skiis on their midterm coverage. They were palpably celebratory on air in their "straight news" a week ago. Fox News all day Monday was doing Democratic midterm post mortem analysis.
Full disclosure: I was definitely worried about the midterms! I didn't think it would look like 2014 or 2010, but I was worried it would be a series of tight heartbreaking losses similar to 2016.
As it turns out, nearly all of the tightest races went to the Democrats.