If we want to understand how progressive policy is undermined by a media owned by the wealthy, the experience of the last several years offers a case study, writes consmyth18.
) of food prices in the run up to Thanksgiving in 2021, for one, put inflation fears front and center:
The doom-and-gloom approach to economic news, then, has had exceptions. But the overall skew, across news articles and television coverage, has clearly been negative. Even a more liberal outlet likehas been highly focused on the negative economic indicators: It has given “inflation” four times as much screen time as “unemployment” during Biden’s presidency; it also featured “recession” 26% more often in the non-recession year of 2022 than in the recession year of 2020.
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