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I’m confused about what you’re trying to say. CNN ran the jobs and unemployment numbers this morning when they came out. And they are in fact on the homepage.

I’m confused about what you’re trying to say. CNN ran the jobs and unemployment numbers this morning when they came out. And they are in fact on the homepage. Contrast with FoxNews.com, which doesn’t have the numbers at all on the homepage (as far as I can tell, maybe I’m missing them, it’s late) and instead has an opinion from Larry Kudlow about how he thinks a recession is coming. Also after much scrolling. They did report the numbers though. What is your point exactly?

rayiner 4y ago
On the current CNN mobile page, the jobs numbers are more than halfway down, under something about Ford and VW self driving operations. The point is that, at best, CNN is out of touch with what people actually care about, and also milking tragedy for profit. Less charitably, they’re focusing on stories that could help democrats in the midterms while burying economic stories that are bad for democrats, while milking tragedy for profit. In the last decade they’ve completely dropped the pretense that they’re not openly rooting for one side. Fox News is partisan entertainment, and deliberately so. I’m not sure why you’re even bringing them up.
- ModernMech 4y ago
  Fox News and CNN some of the largest news networks, and not all of Fox is partisan entertainment. Same for CNN which aired critical stories about Hillary Clinton’s e-mails every single day for months in 2016. The point was to bring another datapoint into the mix. If CNN were burying economic stories bad for Democrats, why isn’t Fox News the partisan entertainment network featuring them? Maybe the stories just aren’t so interesting to people? Or maybe they’re not so bad as you think? I tend to watch all 3 cable networks and inflation, recession worries, good jobs and unemployment numbers, and high but declining gas prices have been topics on all 3 this week. I just don’t see how anyone is hiding anything. The information is there, as you pointed out. Every story I saw yesterday about good jobs numbers had caveats about inflation and recession worries. I mean, are you suggesting that people aren’t aware of these things?

rayiner 4y ago

On the current CNN mobile page, the jobs numbers are more than halfway down, under something about Ford and VW self driving operations. The point is that, at best, CNN is out of touch with what people actually care about, and also milking tragedy for profit. Less charitably, they’re focusing on stories that could help democrats in the midterms while burying economic stories that are bad for democrats, while milking tragedy for profit. In the last decade they’ve completely dropped the pretense that they’re not openly rooting for one side. Fox News is partisan entertainment, and deliberately so. I’m not sure why you’re even bringing them up.

ModernMech 4y ago
Fox News and CNN some of the largest news networks, and not all of Fox is partisan entertainment. Same for CNN which aired critical stories about Hillary Clinton’s e-mails every single day for months in 2016. The point was to bring another datapoint into the mix. If CNN were burying economic stories bad for Democrats, why isn’t Fox News the partisan entertainment network featuring them? Maybe the stories just aren’t so interesting to people? Or maybe they’re not so bad as you think? I tend to watch all 3 cable networks and inflation, recession worries, good jobs and unemployment numbers, and high but declining gas prices have been topics on all 3 this week. I just don’t see how anyone is hiding anything. The information is there, as you pointed out. Every story I saw yesterday about good jobs numbers had caveats about inflation and recession worries. I mean, are you suggesting that people aren’t aware of these things?