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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton: Political journalists "can't bear to face their own role in helping elect Trump" [View all]LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)45. Yes, of course we can.
"Can we really put that at the feet of the media?"
Yes, of course we can. It's not as though there is only one direction in which blame can point. There are numerous reasons, the media being one of them.
Her point yet stands.
"Be realistic..."
Yes, please.
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Hillary Clinton: Political journalists "can't bear to face their own role in helping elect Trump" [View all]
kpete
Sep 2017
OP
I say this every time I watch the show and hear their "outrage" about Trump...
CTyankee
Sep 2017
#86
Cillizza is a snake. Do you remember the Hot Mike conversation between Trump and Mika&Joe ?
OnDoutside
Sep 2017
#17
Reprehensible. Disgusting. Why he doesn't have to answer for that I haven't a clue. eom
SusanaMontana41
Sep 2017
#77
Maybe they should have reported about it accurately rather than taking their cues from Breitbart
emulatorloo
Sep 2017
#27
Be realistic: the press (aka "media") has a special place in the Constitution for a REASON...
Hekate
Sep 2017
#47
Come on, the email issue was a fake scandal milked and milked by repugs and some journalists...
brush
Sep 2017
#19
So true that presidents they help elect are, at least, more LIKELY to hate them.
maddiemom
Sep 2017
#37
See Gallup's "word clouds" re "What Have You Heard/Read/Seen about Trump or Clinton"
emulatorloo
Sep 2017
#34
righhhht--because the hacking, the voter suppression, the russian interference, the
niyad
Sep 2017
#66
Sorry, I forgot that because that stuff all happened that she gets a free pass on everything
Kentonio
Sep 2017
#67
Do you mean that the constant fawning over Donald Trump made the media compliceit?
MarianJack
Sep 2017
#18
They didn't learn their lesson with W and their complicity in the Iraq war.
progressoid
Sep 2017
#22
So True and obvious to all rational thinkers...the three biggest slayers of truth who should
c-rational
Sep 2017
#55
Les Moonves, CEO of CBS: "It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS."
SusanaMontana41
Sep 2017
#74