Does the media hope that the economy continues to be bad as we start to come out of the pandemic and people are beginning to go back to work in some areas?

It sure seems like they’d rather that we continue to have an issue with the economy. Probably right up to November.

How do we know?

It appears The Washington Post already had their story pre-written about the expected job numbers that came out today. Except, of course, being the WaPo, they miscalculated.

It tweeted out this:

MORE WAPO LIES.

Hey @Jack where are the FACT CHECKS?!

Washington Post blasted https://t.co/QkLbtL2cVP

— G. Kaplan’s mentor (@Trumplican__) June 5, 2020

“Grim milestone to be reached as May unemployment rate nears 20 percent,” the Post wrote in a tweet to accompany with a story with the same headline. They later deleted the tweet and edited the story.

They tweeted it moments after the real report came out indicating that the unemployment rate had actually dropped to 13.3 percent, which was a significant drop from April, the jobs had picked back up and an indication that the economy may be coming back.

Their explanation? “Ahead of the release of today’s jobs report, we published a story reflecting how many economists expected the country to reach an unemployment milestone. That story was then updated when the jobs data was released.” That’s what economists had been predicting. Which just goes to show what that prediction is worth. But they still had no justification for pre-writing the story.

The jobs report adding 2.5 million jobs instead of losing the 7.5 million jobs economists forecasted is just another example of “lol nobody knows anything anymore.”

WaPo forgot to change their pre-written URL about a “grim milestone” pic.twitter.com/dp1nS5Bicx

— James Hasson (@JamesHasson20) June 5, 2020

Great work, guys. pic.twitter.com/Rx1lLHJxrB

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 5, 2020

I don’t know. I do know the Washington Post should probably not pre-write and then publish their scheduled tweets if they don’t want to get hit as “fake news”. https://t.co/rktWstZXdD

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 5, 2020

The Washington Post pre-wrote a doom and gloom story on the economy that turned out to be false.

Instead of reaching a "grim milestone," the economy under @realDonaldTrump ADDED 2.5M jobs instead of the predicted loss of 7.5M in May.

WAPO didn't think that would occur.

SAD. https://t.co/QxrQ96maHY pic.twitter.com/5rSc7PoQCL

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 5, 2020

We know this is what you wanted, but it’s not true.

— Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) June 5, 2020