Eric Boehlert: Biden Boom hits new heights -- press buries the good news

[babylonsister]

Biden Boom hits new heights — press buries the good news
Sticking to the script
Eric Boehlert
3 hr ago


Want more proof that the mainstream media remains committed to downplaying good news about the Biden economic boom?

When the Commerce Department on Thursday announced that the economy just grew at the fastest rate in nearly 40 years, posting robust growth numbers not seen since the Reagan era, none of the network newscasts treated the announcement as a big deal. In fact, two of the three newscasts, “ABC World News Tonight” and “CBS Evening News” didn’t even cover the story on Thursday — “NBC Nightly News” gave it one sentence.

The same media that remains in inflation hyperventilation mode, just cannot work up the energy to consistently inform news consumers about the red-hot economy under President Joe Biden. It won’t billboard the fact that it grew so rapidly in the fourth quarter of last year that it pushed the annual gross domestic product rate — the broadest measure of economic activity — to an eye-popping 5.7 percent. (The GDP under Trump never got above 3 percent.) Consumer spending also soared 7.9% last year, the quickest clip in since 1946.

So attached to the idea of using economic news to bash Biden, the press doesn’t know what to do when the data demolish the media’s preferred storyline. That was obvious by the fact that the coverage of the blockbuster GDP news seemed to go out of its way not to mention him.

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https://pressrun.media/p/biden-boom-hits-new-heights-press

[FalloutShelter]

1. Press narrative on MSM today

Seems to be that the only good thing about Biden is that he’s not TFG.
Eff them all.

Wall to wall discussion of TFG. Proving there is no such thing as bad publicity.

[True Blue American]

2. Turned off after the first few minutes.

I am sick to death of hearing about Trumps latest babble. That and traitor Carlson.

[Botany]

3. The idea that we have "a liberal media" is laughable.

How many times did the NY Times run front page stories about Hillary and her emails as compared
to stories about TFG and his mob and Russian ties and the links between Trump, Russia, and the
mob? And those links were real but the HRC & her emails stories were Russian produced disinformation.

https://www.vox.com/2017/12/7/16747712/study-media-2016-election-clintons-emails

The same forces are at work today on trying to drag down President Biden despite the really
good job he is doing.

[Dustlawyer]

11. The corporate media advertisers control the media message.

We need a beefed up Fairness Doctrine requiring truth in the news. No more “news” is “entertainment “ excuse that Fox uses when they get caught lying.

Most people remember the McDonald’s coffee case involving Stella Liebeck. All of the media made it seem like their big advertiser, McDonalds, was the victim of a frivolous lawsuit despite a trial that was public record that showed McDonalds raised the temp of their coffee so high they were settling burn cases confidentially and Mrs. Liebeck almost died. The media tried to protect their big advertiser. Saw this with the BP oil spill as well.

[Botany]

12. Joe B. is the best President of my lifetime. He saved these (for now at least)

]

Bristol Bay and the Cooper River watershed in Alaska.



BWCA connects up to Quetico in Ontario too.



Grand Staircase Escalante in Utah



Arctic National Wildlife Refuge .... no more oil and or gas development = billions of tons less carbon into the atmosphere

[IronLionZion]

16. Biden is killing the economy

or something. Despite our record low unemployment.

[Botany]

17. Don't forget the supply chain too

https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-ceo-says-biden-instrumental-supply-chain-improvements-1652224

[msfiddlestix]

4. That's because the Press would have to acknowledge the hit job on Biden is their only agenda

one would think the media wants that psychotic piece of scum back in office, or they'll happily settle for a wannabe pscyho nut job.

all of this my opinion of course. it's how it has appeared to me since he took office, or damn near.

[spanone]

5. K&R

[doc03]

6. If inflation is so bad why is it on Saturdays and Sundays

the parking lots at the more expensive restaurants are full. I am single and usually eat out one meal every day but on Saturdays and Sundays I end up going to a fast-food restaurant many times because I don't like waiting in line in a sit-down restaurant. How can everyone be broke if they can afford to spend $20 + to eat one meal? Why is it there is a line stretching around Starbucks and sometimes onto the street to spend $6+ on a f----g coffee? If gas is so f----g high why is it gas guzzling trucks and SUVs are the biggest selling vehicles.

[Farmer-Rick]

9. Really the restaurants are full????

Yikes, no wonder COVID is spreading so rapidly.

I've been isolating eversince my neighbor had the ambulance take him to the hospital due to COVID. He's been there for 2 weeks now, he hasn't died...hoping he pulls through. Yeah he's an anti-vaxxer. His son told me.

I see him and hear his engines across the fields after he comes home ... he's a trucker.

[doc03]

18. Here in the eastern Ohio, WV and PA tri-state it is

like COVID is totally forgotten.

[IronLionZion]

13. There are plenty of jobs, the stock market is highest it's ever been

so people with lots of money are spending it. That jacks up prices for things that are in limited supply, like vehicles, travel, nice restaurants, stuff that uses microchips, etc.

[uponit7771]

20. +1, cause CORE inflation isn't rising as much or there are specific aspects of core inflation that

... is rising vs the whole core.

Fuel and car prices are nearly 1/3 or half of the damn inflation rate and those are both being restricted because of a number of reasons.

You're right in your observation that if inflation was stifling the economy there wouldn't be people out eating in droves during a pandemic

[Cozmo]

7. We all need to end the discussion on TFG. He's not news. just a broken record.

Our focus and work is needed elsewhere.

[BlueIdaho]

10. Thank You.

I opened Democratic Underground this morning and the whole video clip sidebar was full of pictures of TFG. Leaks close that book. Time to draw distinct differences between the kind of America the republicans offer and the America we Democrats are working hard for.

[gab13by13]

8. Anyone see the MSM report about why the Fed is raising interest rates?

Trump put pressure on the Fed to keep interest rates at zero to keep the economy above water. The only reason the Fed is now raising interest rates is because we have a strong economy. They are planning a series of raises.

Just that one question someone should ask a cable news anchor, why is the Fed raising interest rates?

It is hard for Democrats to control the narrative, the MSM is right wing, including MSNBC. We do have Nicolle, Chris, and Rachel who try to keep the real news up front, but other than those 3 it's what the American oligarchs want reported.

[Ford_Prefect]

14. The MSM sells based on fear since before Trump. They got addicted to terrifying headlines and their

numbers when Stochastic terror was the norm. They are like a monkey who won't let go of the cookie in the jar to get its hand out.

Along with being owned and run by Oligarchs and other Deplorables

[IronLionZion]

15. I haven't seen any hit pieces on foreigners stealing our jobs

or millennials being too stupid/lazy to buy houses and are killing off entire industries in a while. Aren't we overdue for a caravan invasion or murder hornets or something?

Some members of the "liberal media" probably deserve the abuse Trump gave them.

[Cha]

19. The Fascist loving Press should

be Indicted