• LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    “But for all we’ve done to bring prices down, there are still too many corporations in America ripping people off. Price gouging, junk feeds, greedflation, shrinkflation,” Biden added. “America – we’re tired of being played for suckers!”

    The headline makes it sound like he doesn’t know what’s going on. It’s rather that he is leveling an accusation and makes the media cover this. But even then this CNN article does it’s best to not cover root causes.

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      9 months ago

      Because the people running CNN are part of the root cause, and they’ll be damned if their readers figure it out.

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        “Our friends at CNN are here… you guys love breaking news. And you did it. You broke it. Great work.” -Michelle Wolf (2018 White House Correspondents Dinner)