AP Editorializes Negatively on Lower than Expected Inflation Rate

[pjcomix]

Apparently blatant editorializing in place of straight news now seems to be becoming increasingly the rule not the exception at the Associated Press.

The latest example of AP breaking its own rules against opinionating in news stories is so blatantly absurd as to be laughable. The AP on Thursday actually took the November inflation rate of 2.7% which was below the expected 3.1% and somehow turned that good news into a negative. Check the headline on AP reporters Paul Wiseman's and Anne D'Innocenzio's editorial poorly disguised as an article, "US says price increases eased last month but data may be distorted and Americans aren’t feeling it."

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2025/12/18/ap-editorializes-negatively-lower-expected-inflation-rate

[txradioguy]

Yeah AP gave up straight news reporting a decade or so ago.


The rest of the MSM followed AP's lead when discussing the lowest inflation rate in 5 years

[andy58-in-nh]

If a Democrat were President, AP's reporting would have been nothing but cheers and "Hallelujah!!"s.

The rest of the legacy media seems to have done the same, looking as always for any dark lining around the silver clouds:

Washington Post
December 18, 2025
Headline: "Inflation cooled unexpectedly in November, but shutdown clouds data."

Washington Post
December 19, 2025
Headline: "A new round of economic data has been released, but the numbers are muddled by the recent government shutdown, leaving economists with more questions than answers."

New York Times
December 19, 2025
Headline: "U.S. Inflation Slowed to 2.7% in November as Shutdown Distorts Data. Data collection issues skewed the latest Consumer Price Index report, economists warned, clouding the picture for the Federal Reserve as it also grapples with a cooling labor market.

NBC News
December 19, 2025
Headline: "Inflation falls to 2.7% as slower housing and food increases offset a surge in electricity. Energy prices have soared 4.2% over the last 12 months, while the food category has risen 2.6%."

ABC News
December 19, 2025
Headline: "Inflation drops to lowest level in months, defying expectations of uptick."Body: "Trump made sweeping claims about prices -- from gasoline and groceries to airfare and hotel flights -- comparing the current price to that of former President Joe Biden's administration. But according to the most recent data from the BLS, the president's claims in some cases appeared to be exaggerated, false or unverifiable. The fresh data on Thursday showed price increases had slowed in November, meaning the pace of price hikes had fallen. But price levels -- the average amount paid for a given product -- continued to rise, climbing higher than where they had stood a year prior.