[High Praise! to Stilton’s Place]
In what’s become a very noticeable trend in the mainstream media, “news” reports now consist largely of predictions about what might happen according to ethereal spirit voices who can not be named…
Seriously, the news headlines we’ve been reading lately say “Trump is expected to withdraw from Paris Accord” and “Investigations into Russian collusion are expected to heat up,” and “Comey is expected to testify that Trump pointed a gun at him and demanded (in perfect Russian) that he halt the Flynn investigation and hand over his wallet.” And all this while largely ignoring actual news which they didn’t expect, like yet another month of skyrocketing job growth for everyone except red-headed comediennes.

They’re all signalling prognostications of virtue.