National media turns its failure into clickbait headlines about apathy
By Dan Froomkin

If, in fact, Americans care more about a transitory bout of inflation than the potentially permanent loss of majority rule in this country, that is an absolute tragedy, and a travesty, and a devastating verdict on the failure of the national media to fully convey the threat of an ascendant extremist right-wing Christian nationalist party that proudly refuses to accept elections they don’t win outright.

It is not the stuff of a glib paragraph atop a story about a new poll.

If, in fact, Americans are in a panic about the economy and blaming Joe Biden and Democrats, then that that is a terrible shame, and once again a failure of the national media to fully explain the positive economic news and inflation’s roots in intractable international conditions and the extraordinary pricing power of monopolistic corporations.

It is not the stuff of a glib clause in a story about a new poll.

And if, in fact, Americans think Republicans could do a better job of the economy, then they have been successfully conned by a bunch of certified grifters, in large part because the national media has utterly failed to report the simple fact that the GOP has no actual plan to fight inflation. There is no legitimate reason to leave that utterly specious, self-defeating fantasy conclusion out there, unrebutted, in a story about a new poll.