2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhat 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 cant justify their jobs after the election, there are too many of them and it's hard to believe those channels can afford them.
Warpy
(111,352 posts)and the plutocracy will hold up as long as the derivatives casino does.
SingleSeatBiggerMeat
(220 posts)Down at Home Depot working the Paint Counter.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)bloviating has no limit.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)"See! We told you Obama was going to win! There was never a doubt in our minds. Man, can we call em or what?"
Jim__
(14,083 posts)LTR
(13,227 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)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)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))
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)hvn_nbr_2
(6,488 posts)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)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.