Media Corruption
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Behold, right on cue, the latest example of media inversion. Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal story transformed record-breaking good stock market news into financial doom with a headline Eeyore would have loved: “Stock Market Today: Trump Vows Tariffs on Movies Made Abroad; Dow Futures Slip.” But the sub-headline flipped the script, revealing the truth that, “The S&P 500 rose for nine straight sessions through Friday, the longest winning streak in more than two decades.” That stunning admission was immediately capped by a depressing “futures” chart:
“Stock futures” are just bets on what the market will do next. So, they mainly reflect media mood manipulation rather than anything tangible. It must have been the only thing the reporter could find going the wrong direction that would provide a sufficiently depressing cover image.
The good news in the sub-headline, that the market just set a 20-year record for daily increases, was completely absent from the story. Not only should that singular fact have made up most of the story’s contents, but the article’s headline should have been, “Markets on Historic Run as Trump Expands Tariff Strategy.”
The Journal hates tariffs and the president who made them.
Appropos, here is a clip of President Trump on Air Force One this weekend, scolding the WSJ’s reporter that he works for a “rotten newspaper.” The President said it twice, slower the second time, to make sure the reporter got the message.
CLIP: Trump unfavorably reviews the Wall Street Journal (0:17).
The President asked, “Who are you with?” When the reporter answered, Trump sorrowfully said, “the Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell. It is a rotten newspaper. Did you hear what I said? It's a rotten newspaper.”
Well? He’s not wrong.
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“Stock futures” are just bets on what the market will do next. So, they mainly reflect media mood manipulation rather than anything tangible. It must have been the only thing the reporter could find going the wrong direction that would provide a sufficiently depressing cover image.
The good news in the sub-headline, that the market just set a 20-year record for daily increases, was completely absent from the story. Not only should that singular fact have made up most of the story’s contents, but the article’s headline should have been, “Markets on Historic Run as Trump Expands Tariff Strategy.”
The Journal hates tariffs and the president who made them.
Appropos, here is a clip of President Trump on Air Force One this weekend, scolding the WSJ’s reporter that he works for a “rotten newspaper.” The President said it twice, slower the second time, to make sure the reporter got the message.
CLIP: Trump unfavorably reviews the Wall Street Journal (0:17).
The President asked, “Who are you with?” When the reporter answered, Trump sorrowfully said, “the Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell. It is a rotten newspaper. Did you hear what I said? It's a rotten newspaper.”
Well? He’s not wrong.
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AP, CNN Expose Their Derangement With Coverage of Border Successes Adversely Affecting Human Traffickers
There have been a couple of aphorisms the press loves to trot out to the public as a means of describing – or more accurately deflecting away from - their actions and practices. The first is “We are not the enemy of the people.” Another is that they do not need to give equal airtime to issues because if they give Republicans a fair shot at coverage they are platforming what the press deems to be misinformation. Giving both sides of a story will legitimize the “wrong” side, in their elevated thinking.
Now keep these chestnuts in mind as we look at a pair of stories from different outlets concerning the success President Trump has seen at the border. In recent weeks the data has come in showing that illegal border crossings have slowed to a trickle, with some stats from March showing that entries have dropped by at least 95 percent, and possibly higher than that. Then roll in the growing tide of self-deportations, and we end up in a net-positive arena with illegals.
But the press cannot tolerate any news that would be regarded as positive for the president, so they need to recalibrate what is happening at the southern border. One tactic is to simply overlook the progress made, in similar fashion to how they insisted there was not a border crisis for four years; now it is the case that there is no border success. Another is coming to light this weekend, as we saw not one but two reports straining to claim how this successful effort at the border has negative effects.
What is it with these people who enjoy the smell of their own farts going after Portnoy? Whether it's an attempt to bring down a popular right-leaning personality or boost their virtue points with their crowd, it stinks.
Recall that a minor food writer with the Washington Post tried to sabotage Portnoy's benevolent One Bite Pizza Festival in support of small restauranteurs. We could turn this into 2,000 word rant on the amoral and narcissistic journalists who make up the press, but we covered that with the White House Correspondents Dinner. Instead, let's focus on this particular attempted hit.
You can't blame Portnoy for having no love and taking no crap from journalists. Also, he's smart to record as many of these interactions as possible. They have the microphones and often wield it irresponsibly.
Someone said on WMAL yesterday that WSJ has become way too China-centric with regard to tariffs and the US economy.Behold, right on cue, the latest example of media inversion. Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal story transformed record-breaking good stock market news into financial doom with a headline Eeyore would have loved: “Stock Market Today: Trump Vows Tariffs on Movies Made Abroad; Dow Futures Slip.” But the sub-headline flipped the script, revealing the truth that, “The S&P 500 rose for nine straight sessions through Friday, the longest winning streak in more than two decades.” That stunning admission was immediately capped by a depressing “futures” chart:
“Stock futures” are just bets on what the market will do next. So, they mainly reflect media mood manipulation rather than anything tangible. It must have been the only thing the reporter could find going the wrong direction that would provide a sufficiently depressing cover image.
The good news in the sub-headline, that the market just set a 20-year record for daily increases, was completely absent from the story. Not only should that singular fact have made up most of the story’s contents, but the article’s headline should have been, “Markets on Historic Run as Trump Expands Tariff Strategy.”
The Journal hates tariffs and the president who made them.
Appropos, here is a clip of President Trump on Air Force One this weekend, scolding the WSJ’s reporter that he works for a “rotten newspaper.” The President said it twice, slower the second time, to make sure the reporter got the message.
CLIP: Trump unfavorably reviews the Wall Street Journal (0:17).
The President asked, “Who are you with?” When the reporter answered, Trump sorrowfully said, “the Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell. It is a rotten newspaper. Did you hear what I said? It's a rotten newspaper.”
Well? He’s not wrong.
☕️ THE ACCOUNTANT ☙ Monday, May 5, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
CIA fires military vax architect; NYT spins financial doom; Trump team cuts deeper; media cries over stock surge; DOJ targets pandemic profiteers; Florida AG defies federal judge in looming showdown.
60 Minutes lionizes Trump-hating attorney Marc Elias, mastermind of the Russia hoax
By Monica ShowalterAfter an unprecedented on-air hissy fit last week over the forced exit of a longtime editor, 60 Minutes's Scott Pelley decided to go all in on the Trump-hate, using his on-air time to praise and promote Marc Elias, the architect of the Russia hoax scandal and probably the world's sleaziest lawyer.
According to Breitbart News's Joel Pollak:
He isn't even trying to hide his partisanship. He's calling Elias a hero, courageous, a victim and all the other nonsense that can't be attributed to the sneaky acts of the Russia collusion hoaxers, let alone a Clinton lawyer. Pelley's pious intonations about "rule of law" are, to paraphrase an English writer, "like hearing the word 'love' from the mouth of a whore."
What's more, he's doing what a lot of Democrats do, accusing others what they themselves are doing, which in this case, taking revenge for personal purposes.
The premise of Pelley's piece was that Trump was striking out at Elias, a former attorney of Hillary Clinton's, for personal revenge, as if this hit piece, targeting President Trump by lionizing a man who should be hiding under a rock in disgrace after his Russia collusion hoax, weren't just that -- a personal revenge piece.
60 Minutes is full of CBS people that were aged out by the network from doing the evening or important reporting. They are still likely receiving hefty salaries. Hopefully Trump's lawsuit forces them out.