You probably know the Don Henley song “Dirty Laundry.” It was one of my favorite tunes in the 1980s. A criticism of media sensationalism, the repetitive chorus rang in my ears when I was much younger than I am today: “Kick ’em when they’re up, Kick ’em when they’re down.” This aptly describes the nightly news of the 1980s and the financial press of the 2020s. In early 2022, for example, Business Insider kicked tech stocks as they were going down: “Rising interest rates and expectations of strong economic growth and inflation are all key factors in the sell-off” the site wrote then , mixing up the good (“strong economic growth”) with the bad (“inflation”).… Read more