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Big Three Ignored Poll Showing 62% of Americans Think U.S Is in Recession for Over a Week
NewsBusters ^ | 8/19/2022 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 08/19/2022 7:49:46 AM PDT by JV3MRC

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows ignored reporting on a devastating poll that shows the American people are not buying President Joe Biden’s spin on the meaning of a recession.

An IBD/TIPP poll released Aug. 9 found that a “solid majority of Americans — 62% — think the U.S. economy is in a recession, up from 58% a month ago, 53% in June and 48% in May.” This followed news that the U.S. GDP contracted for the second month in a row to meet the technical definition of a recession. To make the report worse, the “IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index, an early month read on consumer confidence, slipped fourth-tenths [sic] of a point to 38.1, matching June's reading for the lowest since August 2011.” Despite all of this, the ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News completely ignored the poll during their Aug. 9, Aug. 10, Aug. 11, Aug. 12, Aug. 15, Aug. 16, Aug. 17 and Aug. 18 broadcasts. That’s literally over a week’s worth of news coverage.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: abc; blogpimp; cbs; nbc; recession

1 posted on 08/19/2022 7:49:46 AM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

The Three Mighty Blind Mice.


2 posted on 08/19/2022 7:53:05 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: JV3MRC

What the heck? The vast majority of those polled disagree with how the administration changed the definition of a recession???


3 posted on 08/19/2022 7:55:48 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: JV3MRC

There’s no “thinking” about it - we are. Two consecutive quarters of the economy shrinking is a recession.


4 posted on 08/19/2022 7:57:34 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: JV3MRC

with inflation, negative economic growth, declining stock markets, high unemployment and crashing oil prices, we in for far worse than a recession.


5 posted on 08/19/2022 7:58:17 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: JV3MRC

Depending on how Nov turns out, we may be in for a depression in 2023.


6 posted on 08/19/2022 8:01:24 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: JV3MRC

Big Three?

More like the Three Mousketeers...............


7 posted on 08/19/2022 8:05:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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If you don’t say IT than it’s not happening.
BTW the team biden inflation bill is working.
Corn is down 15 cents a year!
Oh wait,it’s the end of the season. Never mind.


8 posted on 08/19/2022 8:07:11 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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If you don’t say IT than it’s not happening.
BTW the team biden inflation bill is working.
Corn is down 15 cents a EAR!
Oh wait,it’s the end of the season. Never mind.


9 posted on 08/19/2022 8:07:43 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: JV3MRC

Both Target and Walmart just announced sales are down. Target reported a 90% drop in profit.

You wouldn’t know what to think unless you read the news reports about Target and Walmart really closely.

The stories I saw didn’t actually mention a decline in sales. The stories mentioned a “change in customer’s buying habits due to inflation”. The stories also talked about problems with “excess inventory”. MSM is being very careful not to directly mention falling sales due consumers having to cut back due to fuel and food prices (let’s go Brandon!).


10 posted on 08/19/2022 8:08:07 AM PDT by Roadrunner383 (;)
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To: Republican Wildcat
Two consecutive quarters of the economy shrinking is a recession.

Only if it is a Republican in office.

11 posted on 08/19/2022 8:19:02 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: JV3MRC

This really isn’t a recession.

We’re going through a deliberate, centrally controlled ‘adjustment’— a program designed to bring our standard of living to a level comparable to the rest of the world’s.


12 posted on 08/19/2022 8:19:09 AM PDT by tsomer
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To: JV3MRC

“The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows ignored reporting on a devastating poll that shows the American people are not buying President Joe Biden’s spin on the meaning of a recession.”

Ignoring the truth .... how novel


13 posted on 08/19/2022 8:44:18 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: JV3MRC

(media perspective) If everybody already knows it, then it’s a waste of airtime to report on it, right?


14 posted on 08/19/2022 8:58:38 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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The FBI raid serves multiple purposes. It attacks Trump while avoiding reporting on major realities. Put another way, a manufactured falsehood replaces reality.

I wonder how many times the media has reported on Afghanistan this past week. That’s another reality to be avoided, not just historically, but also in its current state. Both are massive failures of the establishment and administrative state.

15 posted on 08/19/2022 9:58:57 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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“Big Three Ignored Poll Showing 62% of Americans Think U.S Is in Recession for Over a Week”

that’s because only a gaggle of self-appointed experts using a special hand-waving formula of “many factors” at the National Economic Recession Institute can declare when the economy is in recession ... don’t matter what the peasants think ...


16 posted on 08/19/2022 10:49:07 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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