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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]Hekate
(89,976 posts)47. Be realistic: the press (aka "media") has a special place in the Constitution for a REASON...
That reason being to tell the TRUTH ("quite complex policy issues" ) not bury it because the liar is more ENTERTAINING.
The media failed, bigly. They failed the entire nation.
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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