{"id":14693,"date":"2023-11-21T01:46:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T01:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=14693"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:25:19","slug":"media-back-once-again-with-the-same-tired-story-they-run-every-few-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2023\/11\/21\/media-back-once-again-with-the-same-tired-story-they-run-every-few-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Back again with the same story they run every few months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always about 60+\/-% &#8211; forever. This is not news. This is fluffy content mill crap:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/personalfinance\/60-of-americans-are-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-heading-into-the-holidays-report-finds\/ar-AA1kenCt?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=edgedbb&amp;cvid=57fe1c165620410b81a6b5d511dfec4f&amp;ei=35\">60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck heading into the holidays, report finds (msn.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, inside this not even creative writing exercise: &#8220;The figure is unchanged from last year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on this blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CZOzf5iF5w\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2023\/07\/31\/media-61-of-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck\/\">Media: &#8220;61% of Americans&#8221; live paycheck to paycheck<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Media: &#8220;61% of Americans&#8221; live paycheck to paycheck&#8221; &#8212; Social Panic\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2023\/07\/31\/media-61-of-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck\/embed\/#?secret=YDY1hXZXcb#?secret=CZOzf5iF5w\" data-secret=\"CZOzf5iF5w\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At CNBC, it is nearly always the same reporter that mostly rewrites the old story from a few months ago and pretends to practice useful journalism. And &#8211; it is the same story teller as last time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every few months, CNBC and others publish the same story:  &#8220;60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck&#8221;, which is where has been, is and will be, pretty much forever. This isn&#8217;t news. It&#8217;s content mill fluff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-private","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}