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45. Part of the problem is that the news media assigns separate teams of reporters

Sat Dec 31, 2016, 04:35 AM

Dec 2016

to the major candidates, each group responsible for their candidate. So that automatically sets up a false equivalence. They should have been throwing a lot more resources into digging into the many, many conflicts of interest of DT; and instead, half the reporters had nothing to do but talk about Hillary's emails.

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Fuck the mainstream press before elections! And FUCK THEM NOW! They are not taking responsibility! [View all] Akamai Dec 2016 OP

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Yup! Seems to me that we are trying to get the press to like us. Ain't gonna work. Money works. Akamai Dec 2016 #12

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I was watching Tweety Matthews tonight make fun of Bernie for his wanting to raise taxes on the rich Akamai Dec 2016 #17

Let's Vote On It OldYallow Dec 2016 #32

It just gets incrementally worse each time Cosmocat Dec 2016 #2

Yes -- but we reasonably believe that the press will talk truth to power. And we are WRONG!!! Akamai Dec 2016 #7

Again, this shit isn't new Cosmocat Dec 2016 #10

The media is supposed to be the canary in the mine, the alarm system for all of us, and it is not. Akamai Dec 2016 #13

Isn't it because quashing any real news is what they're hired to do? ailsagirl Dec 2016 #31

Yes IT ISN'T Cosmocat Dec 2016 #49

I saw a lot of Trump on a number of networks. I didn't need a talking head to tell me he's Hoyt Dec 2016 #3

The problem , for me, is how they discuss issues.. JHan Dec 2016 #4

Unfortunately, people who supported Trump are not going to watch an in depth program on health care Hoyt Dec 2016 #5

true. sometimes people can't help being ignorant but there's willful ignorance too. JHan Dec 2016 #16

Worse yet, the likelihood someone will be confronted with an in depth program on health care Snarkoleptic Dec 2016 #21

Agreed, on TV and maybe newsprint, but it's there on Internet. Most just don't care. Hoyt Dec 2016 #41

Part of the problem is that the news media assigns separate teams of reporters pnwmom Dec 2016 #45

Some people are more aware than others. If something is bad, I want people - as many as possible - Akamai Dec 2016 #9

But what we consider truth are considered lies by ignorant white wingers. "Popular" media Hoyt Dec 2016 #15

At least we have to offer a vigorous statement of what we believe, and what history shows. Akamai Dec 2016 #19

You're right.. the US "media" brought us 9/11 and dump.. Cha Dec 2016 #38

You are correct Cosmocat Dec 2016 #11

I did watch MSNBC until... RiverStone Dec 2016 #6

Taking us all down, 4 years from now what will be left? sarcasmo Dec 2016 #8

A couple points NobodyHere Dec 2016 #18

Maybe SOME of the gaffs, but not Trump U. See many people on Akamai Dec 2016 #23

agreed, i see the election coverage like a scale Takket Dec 2016 #20

The undemocratic greedy bastards won this battle. So you agree the coverage Akamai Dec 2016 #26

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What did Chris say now? Don't watch him spew his crap anymore. InAbLuEsTaTe Dec 2016 #24

He showed a segment of his rapid fire questions to Bernie about Akamai Dec 2016 #28

I stopped watching him after that lastone Dec 2016 #35

Absolutely! I really wanted to kick my TV. Really wanted to. Akamai Dec 2016 #37

Thanks... confirms why I don't watch that blowhard anymore! InAbLuEsTaTe Dec 2016 #42

Stop. Watching. The. Russian. Propaganda. Us. News. nt LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #25

Problem is so much of America is guided by the MSM. Should we ignore them? Akamai Dec 2016 #30

Yep. Completely. Why waste your energy on people who lied to you? LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #33

Our media has been hijacked by thugs with a dangerous agenda. Initech Dec 2016 #27

You bet! And we need to push back! In most of America, one can only Right Wing shows Akamai Dec 2016 #29

It's called *programming* for a REASON. nt LaydeeBug Dec 2016 #34

Yes! I've told them to FO since November 2002.. cat on the m$m speaks for me.. Cha Dec 2016 #36

You beat me by 2 years Warpy Dec 2016 #44

If The Press Did Their Job There Would Be No Republicans OldYallow Dec 2016 #39

Once... Snackshack Dec 2016 #40

Good point but the media has always promoted the agenda malaise Dec 2016 #47

Hard to disagree... Snackshack Dec 2016 #48

So stop delivering a warm body to their advertisers Warpy Dec 2016 #43

The false equivalence starts with how the news media assigns reporters. pnwmom Dec 2016 #46

And how about those witches, Andrea Mitchel and Maureen Dowd, and their Akamai Dec 2016 #50