An inflation report coming in lower than expected with a coe inflation number under 3 for the first time since the pandemic would have drawn elated A-block coverage across the “legacy” evening news. But a similar report at the outset of Trump II? Not so much.
Here’s how the inflation report was discussed on the NBC Nightly News:
IT’S (D)IFFERENT: The better-than-forecast inflation numbers drew a grand total of 8 seconds on the NBC Nightly News pic.twitter.com/MYejS8gl6k
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 11, 2025
CHRISTINE ROMANS: That bright spot, consumer prices fell in March from the month before, bringing the inflation rate to 2.4%.
That’s 8 seconds on the rate itself- nothing on core CPI or the things that drove the reduction in inflation. 8 seconds for the “bright spot” within a doom-and-gloom report on tariffs that ran 2 minutes and…
