I was listening to a focus group sponsored by NPR of people who don't like Biden or Trump. They asked one person who was leaning towards Trump about what she saw happening in a second Trump term. She answered, he would create jobs.
Given that we have created jobs at an incredible pace under Biden, this would be like saying that they want to see Trump in because he would nail Osama Bin Laden.
What an incredible indictment of the media that people literally have no idea of the basic facts on the economy. And don't tell me this is based on their lived experience. They don't know lots of people who are unemployed. They get this from what they hear, not from what they see
I was also more than a bit disgusted by the reporters who treated this as a problem of "what is Biden going to do?" Obviously, it is a problem for Biden, but their lack of interest in the fact that the public is completely misinformed about the economy is incredible.
I guess I am old-fashioned but we used to think it was the responsibility of the media to inform the public. I realize that can be hard, but their incredible failure in this case is not something to laugh off.
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This Washington Post editorial finally showed me what is going on with the pundits insisting that we can't tell people it's a good economy.
This is the same story we got in the 1990s when they told Democrats that they HAD to say Social Security was in a crisis or people wouldn't take them seriously.
Well, they were wrong then. Social Security was not in a crisis and the people who told the truth were eventually listened to, despite the best efforts of the media.
Trump always gets the affirmative action for lazy sons of billionaires treatments. He spouts absolute nonsense and the media treats it like no big deal, because that's Trump.
If Biden or any other major political figure said such crazy stuff it would be huge headlines that the person is either completely ignorant or totally out to lunch, and certainly not fit to hold high office.
Ah yes, the good old days. I remember when Biden told Governor DeSantis that he wouldn't help Florida after Hurricane Idalia unless he said nice things about him whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Of course, Biden didn't do that. He did everything he could to help the victims in Florida as quickly as possible as any president should. Biden would have been impeached in a second if he tried in any way to make aid contingent on DeSantis praising him, as he should have been.
But applying the affirmative action standard for lazy sons of billionaires, we just accepted it as normal that Trump would extort praise from mayors and governors as a condition of getting pandemic assistance.
@David_Charts They should require everyone reporting on the presidential campaign to read this. Reporters should know that the inflation the U.S. saw was not due to Biden, it was a worldwide story due to the pandemic and Russia's invasion.
@David_Charts I know reporters always say that people don't care about inflation in Germany and France, they care about inflation here. That may be true, but they should be constantly confronted with the fact that it was a worldwide pandemic, not Biden policies.
@David_Charts The current coverage would be like reporting on the housing shortage in New Orleans in 2006 without mentioning that the city had been devastated by Katrina.
Your periodic reminder that the major media outlets are owned and controlled by people who will pay lower taxes with Donald Trump back in the White House nytimes.com/2024/03/09/us/…
Why does the NYT think it will be "challenging" for Biden to have to run on his record? He had record job creation, the longest streak of below 4.0 percent unemployment in half a century, by far the best growth of any major economy.
He also passed a major infrastructure bill that Trump bumbled with for his whole presidency. He passed the most important climate legislation ever. He made student loan repayment affordable for almost everyone, reduced drug costs for seniors,extended health insurance to millions.