SPIN CYCLE: Liberal Media Outlets Adopt White House Talking Points, Redefine Recession

Liberals are messing with the dictionary again —and the media is eating it up.

According to a report from Fox News, mainstream media outlets The New York Times, AP, CNN and more are starting to parrot White House talking points in an attempt to redefien the meaning of “recession.”

The Biden Administration has been telling Americans a recession may not be two quarters of negative GDP growth —the common defintion that was widely accepted up until, well, last week.

From Fox News:

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman told readers “there’s a pretty good chance” that GDP shrank in the second quarter, which will trigger “breathless commentary” about there being a recession. But he insisted “we won’t be.”

“That’s not how recessions are defined; more important, it’s not how they should be defined,” Krugman wrote Tuesday. “It’s possible that the people who actually decide whether we’re in a recession… will eventually declare that a recession began in the United States in the first half of this year, although that’s unlikely given other economic data.”

New York Times economic reporter Ben Casselman insisted it’s “hard to say” if the country is facing a recession regardless of what Thursday’s numbers reveal.

“Economic output, as measured by gross domestic product, fell in the first quarter of the year. Government data due this week may show that it fell in the second quarter as well. Such a two-quarter decline would meet a common, though unofficial, definition of a recession,” Casselman wrote Monday. “Most economists still don’t think the United States meets the formal definition, which is based on a broader set of indicators, including measures of income, spending and job growth.”

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CNN White House reporter Jeremy Diamond, after a network panel mocked the White House’s attempt of redefining what a recession is, said the White House was “actually correct” to say that consecutive quarters of negative growth weren’t indicative of a recession.

Continue reading over at Fox News:

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