reagansghost
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When it comes to gas prices, here’s math the media doesn’t care about:
Right before Russia invaded Ukraine, crude oil was trading for $99 a barrel, and American motorists were paying $3.61 at the pump. Crude then quickly jumped to $130 and gas prices soared to $4.30. Last week, crude tumbled back down to $99, but we’re still paying the same $4.30 for gas, according to AAA.
For a press that obsessed over gas prices as they climbed, while platforming Republican claims that President Joe Biden was to blame for the energy inflation (another White House “crisis”), the media have now lost interest in the gas station saga. It’s another case of putting extra energy into chasing Bad News for Biden stories. And news outlets have shown no interest in putting Big Oil under a microscope to highlight what role they play in today’s stubbornly high gas prices.
Is price gouging a factor today? Democrats think so. “As American families work to make ends meet, Congress must take action to investigate reports of illegal profiteering, anticompetitive business practices, and price gouging within the oil and gas industry and hold public hearings, as appropriate,” wrote 32 members of Congress who signed a letter to U.S. House and Senate leaders urging “immediate investigations.”
The press couldn’t care less. During the week of March 6-12, when they were in a frantic mode, often reporting live from outlier gas stations that were pushing astronomical prices, “gas” was mentioned 1,450 times on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and MSNBC, according to TVeyes. By contrast “price gouging” that week was referenced just 45 times. There hasn’t been an ounce of media skepticism in play for this story.
There was a time when the mainstream media cast a constantly skeptical eye not only on Big Oil, but on Big Business in general. Today, they get a pass, while Biden gets the blame.
https://pressrun.media/p/oil-prices-down-gas-prices-up-and
this same scenario plays out with other issues as well - they are always first in line to blast Biden or any Democrat for whatever 'crisis' underway, mention the resolution of the 'crisis' only in passing, immediately move on to another blame game. notice during interviews with Dem politicians they DRILL down hard with questions that either have no answer or cast the party in a horrible light for having not already fixed it. when interviewing conservatives they respectfully pose a question, then when lied to immediately move on to another issue....no questions asked. you'll rarely hear a MSM journalist stop any given conservative liar in his tracks and point out his answer was bullshit...usually they then skip that question entirely and immediately jump down a rabbit hole, gaslight the shit out of the interviewer.... then it's "lets move on"...rinse and repeat
back in GWB's days many people were actually carping about this obvious media bias, now it's a given and instead Fox is blamed for 100% of this journalistic malfeasance, while MSM talking heads just gleefully collect their corporate checks and pat themselves on the back for a job well done
the MSM is corporately owned and operated, most all CEO's of every MSM outlet are conservative - they want tax breaks like every other CEO and the GOP is where to find them
Right before Russia invaded Ukraine, crude oil was trading for $99 a barrel, and American motorists were paying $3.61 at the pump. Crude then quickly jumped to $130 and gas prices soared to $4.30. Last week, crude tumbled back down to $99, but we’re still paying the same $4.30 for gas, according to AAA.
For a press that obsessed over gas prices as they climbed, while platforming Republican claims that President Joe Biden was to blame for the energy inflation (another White House “crisis”), the media have now lost interest in the gas station saga. It’s another case of putting extra energy into chasing Bad News for Biden stories. And news outlets have shown no interest in putting Big Oil under a microscope to highlight what role they play in today’s stubbornly high gas prices.
Is price gouging a factor today? Democrats think so. “As American families work to make ends meet, Congress must take action to investigate reports of illegal profiteering, anticompetitive business practices, and price gouging within the oil and gas industry and hold public hearings, as appropriate,” wrote 32 members of Congress who signed a letter to U.S. House and Senate leaders urging “immediate investigations.”
The press couldn’t care less. During the week of March 6-12, when they were in a frantic mode, often reporting live from outlier gas stations that were pushing astronomical prices, “gas” was mentioned 1,450 times on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and MSNBC, according to TVeyes. By contrast “price gouging” that week was referenced just 45 times. There hasn’t been an ounce of media skepticism in play for this story.
There was a time when the mainstream media cast a constantly skeptical eye not only on Big Oil, but on Big Business in general. Today, they get a pass, while Biden gets the blame.
https://pressrun.media/p/oil-prices-down-gas-prices-up-and
this same scenario plays out with other issues as well - they are always first in line to blast Biden or any Democrat for whatever 'crisis' underway, mention the resolution of the 'crisis' only in passing, immediately move on to another blame game. notice during interviews with Dem politicians they DRILL down hard with questions that either have no answer or cast the party in a horrible light for having not already fixed it. when interviewing conservatives they respectfully pose a question, then when lied to immediately move on to another issue....no questions asked. you'll rarely hear a MSM journalist stop any given conservative liar in his tracks and point out his answer was bullshit...usually they then skip that question entirely and immediately jump down a rabbit hole, gaslight the shit out of the interviewer.... then it's "lets move on"...rinse and repeat
back in GWB's days many people were actually carping about this obvious media bias, now it's a given and instead Fox is blamed for 100% of this journalistic malfeasance, while MSM talking heads just gleefully collect their corporate checks and pat themselves on the back for a job well done
the MSM is corporately owned and operated, most all CEO's of every MSM outlet are conservative - they want tax breaks like every other CEO and the GOP is where to find them
