The media is extra fun if you are both unemployed AND almost broke. People in that situation have gotten stories about things like: * unemployment is getting WORSE * unemployment is getting better and everybody says you're lazy if you can't find a job * don't forget the pandemic unemployment is ending (repeated a million times every day for the entire month before it did) * LOL jk now it is ending a week earlier than we told you good luck * Your governor snarkily says if you don't like it, go get an essential job (no part of the story tells anybody how nobody can afford anything on a part-time, minimum wage, and that those jobs are high risk) * News stories about how anybody making minimum wage cannot cover rent * an occasional story about a really trashy person/degenerate who has actually been very homeless well before the quarantine, in an attempt to fear-monger people into believing this will be their life soon * The constant coverage of nothingness coming out of Pelosi and Schumer fighting with any number of Republicans over where pandemic unemployment and other assistance is going now. Nothing has actually happened but let's cover every painful detail. * Almost no media described factually on Saturday why Trump's executive orders were not going to easily happen, so loads of people go their hopes up and probably spent money they had saved.

I'm not trying to push any political side here, it's just that the media DOES, and it plays with the public constantly. The media either twists facts in a huge way or leaves out so many that the story it tells is nowhere near the truth. It makes me wonder how many suicides could have been attributed to people believing the lies and bullshit they read in the news.