Posts on media bias and indepence

Follow Margaret Sullivan. She does a great job.

from Margaret Sullivan: Which media organizations are truly independent and which are cowering and kowtowing? I got an early look at a study that looks at 35 influential media organizations and ranks them. Check it out here:

Actually, no… @politico.com isn't. In fact, they are ranked left of center.www.allsides.com/media-bias/m…

cdpositive (@cdpositive.bsky.social) 2025-07-26T00:42:42.049Z

Trump can’t deal with facts about the labor market

His solution is to fire the person who produced the data. I won’t trust any future BLS once Trump puts a flunky in the job.

Trump unleashed his fury about weakness in the labor market.Claiming without evidence the data were “rigged”So he fired the Senate-confirmed Department of Labor official responsible for pulling together the numbers each month.www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b…

Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine (@papootx.bsky.social) 2025-08-02T00:06:53.381Z

You're going to hear a lot from the MAGA crowd about how the BLS "manipulated" jobs numbers. It's a lie, and it's important to understand why.The President is pointing to data revisions as "proof." But revisions are a normal, healthy part of producing accurate statistics.

Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) 2025-08-02T02:35:40.369Z

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy.Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information.This should alarm everyone. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-destroys-our-source-of-information

Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-08-01T23:17:28.077502Z

Can’t do it. There’s just no substitute. We could get some useful info for sure, but BLS and rest of government stat infrastructure irreplaceable. For one, they make such info a public good. Who wants to pay for the unemployment rate? (I mean, I would, but u know what I mean.)

Jared Bernstein (@jaredb-econ.bsky.social) 2025-08-01T23:21:35.117Z