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How right-leaning outlets have covered the market sell-off

Ken Bensinger of The New York Times writes about how right-leaning media organizations have not emphasized the stock market sell-off in their coverage as much as other news outlets.

Bensinger writes, “But the right’s overall unperturbed response to the stock market illustrates how fully many have absorbed the party line when it comes to the administration’s agenda, even if it hurts their own pocketbooks. And those who did seem to notice the declines have been bending over backward to place blame elsewhere.

“‘This is happening because we have a president with the balls to undo a globalist economic agenda that’s decimated American wages and quality of life,’ Rob Schmitt, a host on Newsmax, said on X. ‘This is the pain that comes from real change.’

“The Fox News host Will Cain likened the country to a person addicted to heroin who was trying to quit.

“‘Our economy has been addicted to government spending,’ Mr. Cain said during his afternoon show on Monday. ‘The withdrawal of that government spending can send the patient, our economy, into a health crisis. But, ultimately, it has to withdraw to once again get healthy.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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