I’m in Upstate NY...In 2022, regular unleaded was $4.98....even went to over $5/gal. I wrote it down so I could keep track of my mileage.
The news gets to choose what they talk about and what they ignore, when they run a story and how they spin it, how they analyze things and what conclusions or connections they draw.
When you have ~85% of the media on your side, most of the social media (where most get their “news” from today); may that be their owners or the journalists themselves, and you have no true moral or professional standards, not even an attempt at trying to be consistent and objective, you get what you have today:
—Insurrections where no real damage was done (they didn’t burn the Capital down, spray paint the painting, or pull down monuments): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4071spAc9-k Framed as White Supremacy, violent, against democracy, bla bla bla.
—And Mostly peaceful protests where they simply lit some fires with BLM and ANTIFA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cekj4ceH7WE
The MSM and social media have an incredible influence on “perceptions.”