CNN's milk story isn't awful because it's about milk, it's awful because it's about CNN
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On Thursday, CNN ran a story about milk prices and how those prices were affecting a family of 12. In short, the head of a family of 11 says she buys 12 gallons of milk a week, and it cost 80 cents more now than it did at some point. That’s not clear. But aCNN's milk story isn't awful because it's about milk, it's awful because it's about CNN
On Thursday, CNN ran a story about milk prices and how those prices were affecting a family of 12. In short, the head of a family of 11 says she buys 12 gallons of milk a week, and it cost 80 cents more now than it did at some point. That’s not clear. But anyway, that 80 cents times 12 gallons times four weeks in a month and, holy crap people! Milk has gone up by $38.40! How can American families survive? To back this up, the whole piece ran under a chyron emblazoned with “American families constrained by inflation speak on burden.” Families. Constrained. Burden. That one had to score pretty well on the deep-seated fear index meter. Laura Clawson has already very effectively dismembered the nonsense behind the milk story, a story that has been so battered about on Twitter that the reporter has become more than a little defensive. But the bigger problem with this story is that it’s not just this story. It’s an example of how every story is treated at CNN these days. Because there are no stories, there are only catastrophes. And all of them are because of Joe Biden. Take it away, Pitchbot! xA baggie of heroin used to cost $5.99. Now, thanks to Biden's decision to get out of Afghanistan, it's $8.50. When you buy two baggies a day, and you multiply that by 30 days in a month, it's almost as much as cable tv.— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) November 4, 2021 Read more
