According to a Newsbusters analysis, mainstream media, namely ABC, CBS and NBC, have dedicated coverage of more than 62 times to Trump’s tariffs and market responses than Sterling’s workload.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced its employment numbers earlier this month, crushing expectations. US employers added 228,000 workers to their pay in March, but expectations were set to only 140,000 jobs. As John Carney, editor of economics at Breitbart News, detailed, “Private sector employment was much stronger than expected. Economists were predicting 115,000 jobs. Companies added 209,000 jobs.”
But mainstream media have not been able to bother covering more performant numbers compared to the first fallout from the first radioactive to the US arena after decades of unfair trade practices since President Donald Trump’s historic “liberation day” mutual tariff announcement.
“Mutual tariffs, again, mutual, back and forth, back and forth, and we call this kind of kind to each other. This is not entirely reciprocal. This is kind and reciprocal,” Trump said in an April 2nd announcement at Rose Garden.
“We charge them. My answer is very simple. If you’re complaining, if you want to keep your tariff charges zero, you’re building your product in America because you don’t build your product in America,” Trump explained.
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“I say to all foreign presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, ambassadors and all others who call on you to immediately seek exemption from these tariffs, and to end your own tariffs and drop your barriers,” the president continued.
Wall Street initially paniced with sell-offs, all of which were bothered by the mainstream media. According to For federalists, “On April 4th, the broadcast network dedicated 62x coverage for Trump’s tariff and market decline on the day that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported to have reported employment in March, 24-hour broadcasting network dedicated 62x coverage for Trump’s tariff and market declines.
It doesn’t end there:
The hyperbolic network dedicated 10 times coverage of the tariff narrative than last week’s report on a decline in consumer prices. The consumer price index was led by low prices at the pump, but ABC News had nothing to say about the decline in total CPI, Newsbusters found. According to the report, the broadcast news network was broadcast for 16 seconds at a slightly rising egg price.
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The tariff broadcast range from April 2nd to April 11th was a total of 422 minutes and 45 seconds.
ABC News was in charge of 148 minutes and 41 seconds on that compensation alone in the April 2nd and April 11th time slots.
In comparison, these mainstream broadcast networks only received 45 seconds coverage for the April 4 employment report for 24 hours, offering 46 minutes and 50 seconds in customs compensation for the same time frame. Again, ABC spent 14 seconds on jobs compared to 17 minutes and 53 seconds on tariffs. Similar numbers apply to CBS News and NBC News.
