On Wednesday and Thursday, ABC and NBC have omitted from their flagship morning and evening newscasts the Wednesday morning release of the November inflation report (known as the Consumer Price Index) that showed the Biden economy coming to an end on a sputtering note with a jump in prices of 2.7 percent from this time a year ago.
With the Federal Reserve and economists having hoped inflation would have fallen to roughly two percent, that nearly three-quarters of a point disparity is less-than-ideal.
Thursday’s CBS Mornings was the only flagship morning or evening show to bring it up. Co-host Nate Burleson began by telling CBS business analyst Jill Schlesinger that “we all thought that things were stabilizing,” but prices the last two months have continued to creep up, so he wanted to know “what’s going on.”
This ‘CBS Mornings’ segment was the…
