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The Facebook owner recently lost a landmark social media addiction trial in California [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Oh Wow!’ CNN Anchor Stunned by New Inflation Surge Amid Trump War — ‘Tr...
CNN anchor John Berman was stunned by a new inflation report that showed a sharp increase from the previous month — the first such report since President Donald Trump started the Iran War. The Bureau of Labor Statistics published its CPI (Consumer Price Index) report on Friday morning, which showed the early effects of the war that began on the last weekend of February: 0.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in March, after rising 0.3 percent in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 3.3 percent before seasonal adjustment. On Friday’s edition of CNN News Central, Berman exclaimed, “Oh wow!” as CNN senior business reporter Matt Egan put the chart up on the wall: JOHN BERMAM: Matt Egan here with the details on this, again, pretty big increase. CNN BUSINESS REPORTER MATT EGAN: Yeah, John, look, we knew the war hit this economy like an earthquake. This is the first damage assessment and it’s not looking good. The fingerprints of the conflict all over this inflation report. So consumer prices up by point nine percent month over month. That is triple the prior monthly inflation rate! And that is the highest in any month in almost four years. You got to go back to June 20, 22, back when gas was at five dollars a gallon, the annual inflation rate bumped up to three point three percent. That’s almost a full percentage point increase. That is, when you look at the trend for annual inflation, look at that! JOHN BERMAM: Oh wow! CNN BUSINESS REPORTER MATT EGAN: Going almost straight up. That’s not what you want to see. JOHN BERMAM: Wow. CNN BUSINESS REPORTER MATT EGAN: In fact, John, that’s the highest annual inflation rate. Yeah, look at, look that. Moving the wrong direction. Highest annual inflation rates, as you mentioned, in almost two years. And 3.3%. This is the highest annual inflation rate for any month of either of President Trump’s presidencies. And remember, you’re targeting 2%, so not what you wanna see. As far as why this happened, as you might imagine. A lot of this big increase in month over month was driven by the fact that gasoline went up at a historic pace, right? The BLS says that about three quarters of this monthly inflation rate increase is directly linked to gasoline. Gas prices up… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - ONE SHEET: Trump Attacks MAGA Media; WHCA’s Free Press Problem; Politico’s N...
The Big Picture The White House Correspondents’ dinner is at the end of the month, and the press corps is fighting about pocket squares. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump blew up his own MAGA coalition on Truth Social, calling Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens low-IQ troublemakers — and Carlson texted back that he feels “sorry” for the president. Hollywood is processing Jeff Shell’s second fall from grace in three years, the WGA inked a deal that essentially punted on AI again, and CNN quietly telegraphed its succession plan. It’s a busy Friday. Today’s sources: Status | To the Contrary | False Flag | Breaker | Page Six Hollywood | The Ankler | Puck | Tubefilter | Newsbusters | Feed Me | CJR | Awful Announcing | Poynter Top Story WHCA INVITES FREE PRESS ANTAGONISTS TO FIRST AMENDMENT CELEBRATION The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is scheduled for Saturday, April 25, and the newsletter class has a lot of feelings about it — none of them flattering to the press corps. The controversy crystallized this week when it emerged that CBS News had invited not just Secretary of War Pete Hegseth — the man who booted journalists from the Pentagon and used press briefings to mock reporters — as a guest, but also White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Breaker’s Lachlan Cartwright broke the Miller news exclusively, adding a fresh layer of embarrassment to an already uncomfortable situation. “We invite officials from the Administration every year regardless of who’s in office,” a CBS News spokesperson told Breaker. “That’s because it’s our job to be in the room with sources who matter.” To the Contrary‘s Charlie Sykes was having none of it. Citing Status reporting that many journalists plan to wear pocket squares and pins bearing the text of the First Amendment as a “subversive gesture,” Sykes offered a tart verdict: “Fighting for freedom of the press with pocket squares and tote bags? Subversive? I think not. More like pathetic.” Status‘ Natalie Korach had the sharper institutional angle on the Hegseth invitation specifically, quoting an executive from a rival network: “What a slap in the face to the journalists at CBS News to invite the man leading the fight to unilaterally shut down press freedoms in this country.” A CBS News staffer called it “deeply disappointing,” while another told Status it felt like an “access play” — a transaction… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Dancer with ALS uses brainwaves to perform again through avatarBreanna Olson said the tech was able to re-establish the expression and connection her ALS had eroded. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- ‘I Call BS!’ Ex-Trump Official Cracks CNN Anchor Up With Take on Melania Bom...Former Trump administration official Stephanie Grisham drew guffaws from CNN anchor Phil Mattingly with her take on First Lady Melania Trump’s bombshell press event about deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Trump stunned the media world on Thursday afternoon with a surprise press event during which she lashed out over Epstein rumors and called for public hearings for the survivors. Among the gusher of reactions was a claim from President Donald Trump that he did not know Melania was going to make the statement. On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead, Grisham — who was a chief spokesperson for Melania and for President Trump in the first term — called “BS” on Trump and drew laughter when Mattingly asked if Trump could have stopped her: PHIL MATTINGLY: We’re back with more on our law and justice lead, First Lady Melania Trump’s rare statement distancing herself from Jeffrey Epstein and calling on Congress to allow Epstein victims to testify under oath. Joining me now, Stephanie Grisham. She was the first lady’s chief of staff and press secretary during President Trump’s first term. I think the thing that honestly, I don’t really understand why this happened today. And so that would be my first question to you is no one seemed to know it was coming. It seems to be a month and a half plus removed from when this was really front and center of things. What’s your sense of the why here? STEPHANIE GRISHAM: You know, I’ve got a couple of thoughts. Either, you know, there — her press shop has been getting inquiries and she’s trying to head off a story, or her press shop has been getting inquiries and she just kind of got sick of all the nonsense. She can go so far and then she gets really tired of being interjected into some of her husband’s shadier areas of life and then — and then she will speak out. So, you know, I said it today on X and I want to say it again, kudos to her for speaking out and putting those victims front and center. MATTINGLY: You know, the first lady’s known for when she does speak out, she’s willing to make bold statements. You know, you worked for her when she wore, of course, the jacket that everybody remembers the I really don’t care. Do — you know her well, the decision to come… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- ‘Let Me Speak!’ Anti-Trump Podcaster Snaps on Interrupty Guest in CNN Brawl ...PoliticsGirl podcast host Leigh McGowan snapped on Noah Rothman for interrupting her during a brawl over the nuclear deal that President Donald Trump tore up before launching a war against Iran years later. Earlier this week, YouTube and Sirius XM host Megyn Kelly went off on “gullible”Trump over revelations from a Maggie Haberman report on the genesis of the Iran war. In a deep-dive based on reporting for the book, Haberman and co-author Jonathan Swan recount a meeting at which CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio derided the intelligence presented to Trump by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Tuesday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, anchor Abby Phillip convened a panel consisting of McGowan, Rothman, Peter Meijer, Neera Tanden, and Margaret Donovan to discuss Kelly’s criticisms. When Rothman interrupted McGowan, she exclaimed, “Can you actually just let me speak for like one freaking second, bro?”: PHILLIP: Let me just play real quick. This is Megyn Kelly talking about this, the Situation Room meeting in which Trump was sold on this war and the atmospherics of it. Listen. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KELLY: What led Trump, what, at 79 years old to sit in there in that Situation Room when Bibi Netanyahu was seated as an equal? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. KELLY: Trump didn’t even sit at the head of the table. Trump sat at the side of the table and Bibi was across from him as an equal in the American Situation Room. What led him to sit there and buy what that guy was selling, hook, line, and sinker, when every other president was able to see through that liar? (END VIDEO CLIP) PHILLIP: Is there — she’s implying there’s a judgment issue here. Do you think that there’s reason to believe that? ROTHMAN: I’m not going to respond to that. I’m going to respond to Secretary Kerry. He’s right that the Israelis did approach American administration subsequently, one after the other and said the Iran threat is metastasizing, and they did nothing about it. In fact, they restrained Israel to the degree that we had October 7. On October 7, Israel said, I’m not going to be restrained anymore. Likewise, we had Iran develop a ballistic missile program that was prohibited and a uranium enrichment program that had gotten to 60 percent uranium. So, yes, all of that did happen over the course of several… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
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