Hi, everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl

Ackison podcast on just the news.com. I hope today you will pre-order my new book, Slanted,

how the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism. Today, you will pre-order my new book, Slanted, How the News Media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism.

Today, we examine more sloppy and false media reporting. It seems to have reached epidemic

levels.

In a moment, I will continue with my analysis of media mistakes in the era of Trump.

In my previous podcasts, both the Cheryl Akson podcast, which you're listening to now, and full measure after hours, I've analyzed number one through 35 on my list of media mistakes. You can look for those two podcasts if you miss them. And in the title, you'll find

the ones that address these media mistakes by number. And I will continue with future podcasts

outlining all the numbers all the way through more than 100. But before we

get to that, there's been a major burst of misreporting this past week after President Trump announced

an executive order to temporarily delay people having to pay payroll taxes from their paychecks.

Now, a little background, the idea of a so-called holiday from paying payroll taxes

is that working Americans will be able to hang on to more of their income right now during the

coronavirus crisis, although they and their employers will still owe their share of these taxes at the

end of the tax year unless some other action is taken. Numerous times in the

past, there have been payroll, tax cuts, or holidays. Now, these tax funds include funds that pay for

Social Security and Medicare. It's worth noting that Social Security has long been going bankrupt.

You probably know this. It's underfunded.

Congress has, quote, robbed the trust fund for Social Security to pay for many other things,

so it's long been in trouble. Anyway, here's where the misreporting comes in. President Trump's

executive order temporarily cuts payroll taxes for those making about $104,000 a year or less,

meaning, again, they don't have to pay right now. Neither do their employers. The income detail

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