Everything on the news is a lie.
I figured this out in 1992, with Clinton/Bush/Perot. I think Bush threw that election, btw, but the press had been hammering that the economy was down, and Bush kept saying the 4th quarter numbers were going to be good.
On ABC, before the election was even over, but when Clinton had gotten enough electoral votes to be declared the winner, David Brinkley, who was, at the time the "grand old man of journalism, the paragon of impartiality," made a pronouncement. "Well, one thing the new president will have going for him is a rebounding economy. We've just gotten the 4th quarter numbers, and the U. S. is out of the recession."
I knew then it was all a show. It was time to change the narrative, and from that time on until the rapist and the murderer were out of the WH, there was never another bad word about the economy.
We’ve just gotten the 4th quarter numbers, and the U. S. is out of the recession.”
“Worst economy in 50 years”