The media should stop accepting Republican talking points as gospel truth.

[kentuck]

They never fail to disappoint.

If there is some politician saying that his opponent is a "criminal" and there should be a special prosecutor, that is something that should be looked at very skeptically.

Where is the evidence? It is journalistic malpractice to promote such charges without evidence.

Also, it should be a two-way street. The more that Republicans insist on blaming Hillary Clinton of criminal charges, the more they should insist on tax returns and transparency from Donald Trump. He should not be permitted to get over like a fat rat.

The media needs to get their shit together and do their job. Simply regurgitating Republican attack points is not the way to do it.

[world wide wally]

1. They make accusations all day long, every day.

But they never produce a shred of evidence because they are never asked for it.

[Thinkingabout]

2. What else do they have, the nominee they produced still doesnt have any solid plans to serve

as president, lies is all they have.

[kentuck]

3. They say, "We know she lied and that it was all a 'pay for play' system.."

No! You don't know that. Stop making such serious allegations without any proof or evidence. Just because you say it does not make it so.

[Jade Fox]

4. The media should follow every Trump quote with......

with info on whether there is any truth at all to the statement being made.

This has gotten so out of hand with the Trump "campaign". It's like the concept of truth itself is being eroded out of existance.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Because the republicans know their supporters are stupid enough to believe

anything they say without a shred of evidence. They can just make shit up willy-nilly and their base will accept it as the gospel truth. It's infuriating!

[malaise]

6. And that includes the networks

Just turned off ABC

[madokie]

7. Largely because of the way

our press does NOT do their jobs we find ourselves where we are today. In a world of hurt.

Fuck 'm, all of them save for a few and very few that number is

[kentuck]

8. They follow the FOX lead.

It is a huge problem.

[spanone]

9. journalism is dead...DEAD. we have 24/7 cable teevee reality news

it filters down....for the last two days my local news (nbc affiliate) has 'teased' the news with Hillary emails.....

and don't forget the media gave trump 2 BILLION dollars worth of free airtime....THAT'S TWO BILLION WITH A 'B'

[gratuitous]

10. Apparently that's just too much to ask

Why, you'd have to be some kind of super-duper, uh, looking-stuff-up kind of person to check on all the stuff put out by the Republicans, with easy access to contemporaneous accounts of actual events, a catalog of people's prior statements, and the ability to assemble all that on a deadline. It's unpossible. The only thing the popular media can do is just tell us what the Republicans are saying as if it were true, and let us figure it out somehow.

[kacekwl]

11. This is the kind of thing

we can address as part of the Political Revolution that Bernie was pushing . I would be glad to spend a Saturday or Sunday protesting ABC , NBC , CNN , FOX etc . (Please don't bash me . I supported Bernie but will vote for Hillary but I still believe in the pie in the sky ideas) This has to change.

[lpbk2713]

12. The GOP owes its very existence to the MSM.

The MSM revived the GOP several times since the last
years of the corrupt and evil BushCo Regime.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Conveyor belt media is not journalism. . . . nt

[rurallib]

14. even the vaunted NPR

turn it off most every morning after statement after statement goes unquestioned.

[Orrex]

16. Yesterday the commentator badgered Sherrod Brown

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The commentator kept laughingly insisting that Clinton needs to do more public relations outreach, and he clearly implied that her "failure" to do so is hurting her to Trump's benefit. It went on for long minutes, with the host chuckling the whole time, until Brown's annoyance was obvious--and who can blame him?

NPR, like all the other propaganda pipelines, makes a token effort to document the obscene absurdity of Trump's campaign, but they're more than happy to portray him as a viable candidate who's "no worse" than Clinton.

At least they stop reciting the "she's untrustworthy" mantra that they'd been parroting nonstop for the last few weeks...

[rurallib]

18. At least once in every news show I listen to the "Clinton is untrustworty" line

is mentioned.

Sometimes Trump surrogates are questioned, but usually not.

[Odin2005]

15. The Media does not want want facts, they want sensationalism, they want controversy.

Cable News runs on ad revenue, so it's only purpose is to get as many eyeballs as possible.

[kairos12]

17. For fear of losing advertising revenue they will never stop the both sides do it refrain.

[Vinca]

19. The media wants a story and they're doing all they can to create it.

In this case, it's the horse race. Nothing to cover if Hillary is so far ahead it's silly. I also think they would be happy to have Trump win the election. White House coverage would be a must-see-TV reality show. It's all about the ratings and advertiser money.