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AlinPA

(15,071 posts)
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 07:12 PM Oct 2012

What will become of all the bloviating “journalists” on cable ‘news’ after the election?

Cable ‘news’ is bloated with more political pundits- “journalists” as they call them than I have ever seen. While I was waiting to see the President speak about the hurricane today, MSNBC had four of these people around a table blabbering away about the election. Surely these people can’t justify their jobs after the election, there are too many of them and it's hard to believe those channels can afford them.

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What will become of all the bloviating “journalists” on cable ‘news’ after the election? (Original Post) AlinPA Oct 2012 OP
Their jobs are secure as long as the plutocracy holds up Warpy Oct 2012 #1
They Are All Going To Join Scott Brown and Ed Gillespe..... SingleSeatBiggerMeat Oct 2012 #2
+1 nt ProudProgressiveNow Oct 2012 #10
they will start bloviating about something else. DCBob Oct 2012 #3
^Truth. NCLefty Oct 2012 #12
They will say, LeftofObama Oct 2012 #4
They'll start talking about Christie versus Hillary in 2016. - n/t Jim__ Oct 2012 #5
Find some missing blondes to over-report on LTR Oct 2012 #6
They do have a problem. Thir whole franchise was based on brnging Obama down BlueStreak Oct 2012 #7
WITH A LITTLE LUCK, clydefrand Oct 2012 #8
+1000 ProudProgressiveNow Oct 2012 #11
They'll just have more company hvn_nbr_2 Oct 2012 #9
Bloviating, Gasbag "Journalists" Iggy Oct 2012 #13

Warpy

(111,352 posts)
1. Their jobs are secure as long as the plutocracy holds up
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 07:15 PM
Oct 2012

and the plutocracy will hold up as long as the derivatives casino does.

LeftofObama

(4,243 posts)
4. They will say,
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 07:28 PM
Oct 2012

"See! We told you Obama was going to win! There was never a doubt in our minds. Man, can we call em or what?"

 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
7. They do have a problem. Thir whole franchise was based on brnging Obama down
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 07:48 PM
Oct 2012

That leaves them with 2 problems:

1) They failed; and

2) Nothing they do now will bring him down, and there is no point in even going there.

There is a broader problem. Much of the fear and anger they fomented was about all the horrible things that Obama would visit on America if he could not be terminated (metaphorically speaking, I suppose). But in fact people are seeing a building economy, a health care system that actually benefits average Americans, and certainly none of the "communism" or "death panels" that they used to incite rage among their followers. There is a base of maybe 10% of the public that wants to remain whipped up, but I think they will have a hard time keeping that atmosphere of impending doom alive if the reality is so much different.

But all is not lost for the punditocracy. Both parties have serious sorting out to do. There is no heir apparent in the Democratic Party, and the Republican party is cannibalizing itself with all those teabaggers still around. There will be plenty to bloviate about.

clydefrand

(4,325 posts)
8. WITH A LITTLE LUCK,
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 07:56 PM
Oct 2012

FAUX NEWS GOES BROKE, CNN HIRES ALL THEIR VERY OLD NEWS PEOPLE (THEY WERE GOOD),
(you have go back to their beginning to remember them), Joe S gets kicked off TV altogether,
and, only 'honest' reporters will remain, and those who state their opions, one way or the other,
should remain. P L U S: STOP SO MANY DAMN COMMERCIALS ON TV, and EVEN MORE DAMN COMMERCIALS ON THE INTERNET. L E T U S R E A D I N F O R M A T I O N, not have to click 'back', or shut internet down in disgust!!!!!!!!!!!

((Oh, ship rush to the Antarctic, in the nude))

hvn_nbr_2

(6,488 posts)
9. They'll just have more company
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 08:05 PM
Oct 2012

All the Republicans who lose their elections will become "journalists" and join them on cable. The plutocracy always finds ways to reward their washed up hacks.

 

Iggy

(1,418 posts)
13. Bloviating, Gasbag "Journalists"
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 08:52 PM
Oct 2012

what will happen to them after the election??

here's what: first, there will be 4-5 weeks of "analysis" regarding who won the election.. doesn't
matter if it's Obama or Romney; the analysis must occur.

second: after 4-5 weeks of that utter nonsense, the "journalists" will return to doing what they are
paid to do: Propaganda supporting the wealthy class-- i.e. how the poor, put upon wealthy class are victims
of so many bad things; big government, taxes that are too high, and black/brown skinned welfare queens
driving new Cadillacs on their dime.

FAIL.

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