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Funtatlaguy

(10,879 posts)
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 09:19 AM Sep 2016

What every reporter believes but will not say publically.

Now that the race is "tied", the new thing for reporters to ask Democrats is ...."why, with all of his negatives, is this race so close".

They know that there are two answers:
1. The medias non stop coverage of Trump and the false equivalency stories they promote.
2. The fact that there are a lot of uneducated, racist, sexist, xenophobic, Americans.

If any mainstream reporter has ever said this, someone please send me the link. Thanks.

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What every reporter believes but will not say publically. (Original Post) Funtatlaguy Sep 2016 OP
I think you're giving them too much credit. They're all Hortensis Sep 2016 #1
Some print & web media much better than TV: WaPo, HuffPo, Atlantic, New York mag, NewsWeek. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2016 #2
Granted. Funtatlaguy Sep 2016 #3
Oh, yes. Flicking on TV news is like dining on Hortensis Sep 2016 #5
Please, we had Eugene Robinson...someone whose opinion I revere... SticksnStones Sep 2016 #4
Samantha Bee nailed it. Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2016 #6
Yes, She is awesome. Funtatlaguy Sep 2016 #7
she's phenomenal, isn't she? renate Sep 2016 #8
Funny and sharp! I would certainbly prefer to see her every day! Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2016 #9

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
1. I think you're giving them too much credit. They're all
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 09:25 AM
Sep 2016

too human, badmouthing Hillary is literally a requirement to hold almost all MSM jobs covering national politics, and most want both the prize "insider" jobs and to still believe they hold the torch of truth and knowledge for America.

And when almost every successful leader from Napoleon right on through today has understood that if you tell a lie often enough people will believe it, they were not excepting "journalists."

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Oh, yes. Flicking on TV news is like dining on
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 09:43 AM
Sep 2016

weird meat at McDonald's and canned sauce-stuff at Ruby Tuesday because they're right where people pass every day. Checking out what The Atlantic and others have to say is like driving another block over to the restaurants informed people who want a good meal know exist.

SticksnStones

(2,108 posts)
4. Please, we had Eugene Robinson...someone whose opinion I revere...
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 09:41 AM
Sep 2016

Say just yesterday it's not the media's fault. The media have said all that needs to be said about Trump. It's the democrats fault for not working hard enough....WTF Mr. Robinson?

No one in the media sees the rise of Trump as their doing.

Just as the lack of information on the Iraq war, nay the actual cheering on of the Iraq war - wasn't their fault.

The media recuses themselves from actual reporting, save for scant few like Joy Reid (she should have a national holiday named in her honor). And then wonders what went wrong.

Thank dog for pockets of the internet where one can ferret out truth. Broadcast media is in the final verse of their own swan song.

Funtatlaguy

(10,879 posts)
7. Yes, She is awesome.
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 12:32 PM
Sep 2016

Like Colbert, wonderful fruit from the Jon Stewart tree.
It's a shame that political comics are now relied upon to give us the truth.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)
9. Funny and sharp! I would certainbly prefer to see her every day!
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 01:24 PM
Sep 2016

We're lucky if she's shown once a week on her TBS show.

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