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Julia A. Seymour | April 4, 2019

In spite of growing wages, extremely low unemployment and nearly 3 percent economic growth in 2018, the liberal media are becoming obsessed with recession. It didn’t matter that CFOs were confident the U.S. economy “will not…

Julia A. Seymour | March 14, 2019

As if searching for a way to criticize the late 2017 tax cuts, the broadcasts networks aired a series of panicked reports about tax returns in February. Roughly 80 percent of Americans taxes were cut by the legislation, yet the broadcasts…

Julia A. Seymour | March 7, 2019

The World Wildlife Fund for Nature often appears in the news. Its experts and studies pushing environmental topics get reported. In fact, its Mexico branch was mentioned in an Associated Press story about butterflies March 6, just days after the…

Julia A. Seymour | February 28, 2019

How much would a Green New Deal cost? That’s the $93 trillion question some media outlets won’t ask.

New estimates suggest the price tag of the climate and economic ideas contained in the Green New Deal promoted by Rep.…

Julia A. Seymour | February 26, 2019

Socialism causes “hellish” suffering and desperation for Venezuelans. But there’s been a major failure by the broadcast networks in their coverage of the South American country’s economic collapse.

They’re…

Julia A. Seymour | February 19, 2019

The stock market has been on the rebound in 2019, after what some called an “irrational sell-off” in late 2018. The network evening shows covered that “market meltdown” throughout the fall, but have spent a lot less time…

Julia A. Seymour | February 14, 2019

It’s been a week since Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., introduced a “Green New Deal” resolution promising massive government spending and no way to pay for it.

The president and…

Julia A. Seymour | February 8, 2019

Going “green” will require a lot of green, apparently. Two U.S. legislators have a proposal designed to require substantial changes to every building in the U.S., create rail “at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary…

Julia A. Seymour | February 7, 2019

Stocks “rebounded in spectacular fashion in January,” but anyone reliant on network news programming may not have noticed since the networks proved yet again to care far more about bad economic news.

ABC, CBS and NBC evening…

Julia A. Seymour | February 4, 2019

January was a “blockbuster” month for job gains, in spite of the government shutdown. The 304,000 jobs added was nearly twice as many as the 172,000 forecasters anticipated. Only it didn’t appear that way on the broadcast…

Julia A. Seymour | January 30, 2019

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s potential third party bid for president has freaked out liberal media outlets including CBS. But that wasn’t always the media's attitude.

In 2018, CBS This Morning wanted to know if he…

Julia A. Seymour | January 8, 2019

The December jobs report showing 312,000 jobs added was a “boom,” a “surge,” and a huge “surprise.” While all three networks noticed the big economic story on Jan. 4, ABC's World News Tonight with…

Julia A. Seymour | December 20, 2018

The liberal media were at it again in 2018, continuing to misreport, exaggerate, censor and spin business and economic news.

Some moments were laughable, such as when a New York Times reporter implied America no longer uses coal for…

Julia A. Seymour | December 11, 2018

The U.S. created 155,000 jobs in November. Although it was lower than forecasts the number was “not bad.” In fact, it’s still more jobs than are needed to keep up with population growth and drive down the already low…

Julia A. Seymour | December 10, 2018

The very same day stock market gyrations captured the media’s focus, government agencies announced a decline in the U.S. poverty rate and an increase in household net worth.

But the networks skipped any and all good economic news on…

Julia A. Seymour | December 5, 2018

France’s increasingly violent “yellow vest” protests began as grassroots, working-class opposition to a fuel tax hike that was promoted by the government as climate change action. But network stories about the protests ignored…

Julia A. Seymour | November 27, 2018

If you’ve been tuned into TV news the past few days, you’ve probably heard “climate change could strip away 10 percent” of U.S economic growth by 2100. What you likely didn’t hear was why that was an “…

Julia A. Seymour | November 13, 2018

Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer is taking a victory lap now that Democrats have won a majority in the House of Representatives. But voters should wonder why broadcast networks failed to report on his $120-million dollar efforts to flip the House…

Julia A. Seymour | November 5, 2018

As voters head to the polls this Election Day, one thing on many of their minds is the U.S. economy. They just haven’t seen much of it on the network news.

The liberal media know the economy is one of the top issues for voters, yet…

Julia A. Seymour | November 2, 2018

With the election looming, the addition of a quarter million new jobs in October, grabbed headlines. But NBC Nightly News gave more than twice as much attention to the hot topic of celebrating Hollywood’s movie rating system.

On Nov…