Kind of news theyd be getting however now just a few months into this pandemic according to pew research here in the United States numbers of majority feel that the us news media has handled coverage of this pandemic rather well in fact 69 percent to be exact in fact the percentage of those who say the media was exaggerating the threat of the virus has dropped from 62 percent in march to 48 percent in april that includes a decline in the portion saying the media have greatly exaggerated the risks as well from 37 percent to 24 percent but these numbers do not mean the u. S. News media has been beyond reproach in their tactics nor have they seen the upswing in profits either as the Washington Post reports people are consuming news like never before but spikes in readership are coming alongside huge drops in the advertising revenue. A New York Times count estimated 36000 media workers have experienced furloughs pay cuts or even layoffs from vice to buzz feed to corks to condi nast there h
Greetings and sal you take shims want to know all right with country after country nation after nation citizen after citizen on lockdown do its due to stay at home orders all around the world for many their only real connection to whats going on in the world outside their own neighborhoods and communities comes from the Television News and online and print journalism they consume but given the partisan and carnival nature of the ratings and click hungry United States news media going into this pandemic many were as you can imagine right bully concerned about what kind of news theyd be getting however. Now just a few months into this pandemic according to pew research here in the United States numbers of majority feel that the us news media has handled coverage of this pandemic rather well in fact 69 percent to be exact in fact the percentage of those who say the media was exaggerating the threat of the virus has dropped from 62 percent in march to 48 percent in april that includes a de
After 10 00 this morning. The p has been calling for rate cuts and more of them, the reaction was essentially they didnt do enough. This is the president s tweet, the Federal Reserve shut asking, further ease and come into other countrys competitors. Were not on level playing field. Not fair to the u. S. Finally time for the Federal Reserve to lead, more easing and cutting. After that, jay powell gave his press conference, 11 00 here on the east coast and the chair of the Federal Reserve was asked whether or not there was any political pressure for this move. As he has, time and time again, he said no. Here was powell from earlier today. Well always make our decisions in the interests of the American People to Carry Forward and try to achieve mandates congress has given us and were never going to consider any Political Considerations whatsoever. We will not do that and it is very important that the public understand that. Reporter right now here in washington President Trump is speakin
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Good morning welcome to squawk alley. Carlson his way to florida and that is our top story, of course, of the morning Hurricane Irma the National Weather service downgrading the storm to category 4 earlier this morning, still packing devastating winds up to 156 Miles Per Hour Team Coverage this morning with nbc meteorologist back at hq jackie is in ft. Lauderdale. What can you tell us about the path of the storm . Its on track, continuing to move to the westnorthwest at this point between the bahamas and cuba over the day to day and looks like its on track to make a land fall in south florida early, early sunday morning. So well start by looking here off to my right. Because not only do we have the category four storm of irma, but we also have jose now category 4. So back to back category 4 storms in the atlantic at this point. But, of course, our main folk us is going to be irma. So if we look at the alerts that are going on throughout the area, its going to be right around south flor