2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBottom line: the media cost Hillary the election. Period.
Who didn't cover Trump like a normal candidate?
Who didn't give a shit about policy discussions?
Who elevated every insignificant Hillary "scandal" to the level of covering a mass murderer?
Who blew up Comey's letter into a fever-pitched orgy of innuendo and suspicion?
Who cared exclusively about personality and not positions?
Let's face it, the media decides who and what gets covered when. No matter what story came out about Trump, the coverage quickly moved on to the next Trump stupidity and the narrative became that nothing stuck to him. That happens when you don't stay with a story.
The media treated Hillary like a convicted criminal who couldn't say "hello" without the media characterizing her greeting as being calculated and insincere. Every little thing she did was characterized as a "scandal."
The media hates the Clintons and they really hate Hillary. She never got a fair shake this entire election cycle. The media made sure of that.
And, they refused to ever treat this election as they have every other election in the past. They never asked Trump about his policies. In fact, they never really asked Hillary, either. It was all about how both of them reacted to whatever "scandal" the media had latched onto.
It can all be laid at their pathetic feet.
MFM008
(19,814 posts)Not to mention the FBI.
Kilgore
(1,733 posts)They made record profits!!
pnwmom
(108,978 posts)A mountain of propaganda against Hillary.
still_one
(92,192 posts)and even with all that, she still won the popular vote and it is still growing. Right now she is ahead by 2%
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)He was and is great for their bottom line. HRC wasn't.
still_one
(92,192 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)After all, she was a sure thing so why stand in line for hours like the media kept showing on TV?
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)a fraud, a thief, a cheat, a con man, and a threat to our way of life in the same tone he accused of her all that bullshit. I know it was not in her nature because she is a decent human being. But maybe then the fucking media would have reacted like human beings themselves or something other than ass kissers to an orange false god at a bank taking your money. I totally agree that they were a huge factor along with Russia, the FBI, and Wikileaks not to mention the R's which at least was normal.
The irony may very well be that they have killed the goose that laid the golden eggs when they took down our country with the economy to soon follow.
FCN! {Fuck Cable News}
Just don't watch
Skittles
(153,160 posts)just like Obama would be the angry black man if he did the same
C Moon
(12,213 posts)oasis
(49,387 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)I don't think Trump could've won in the old days when people got most of their news from newspapers and relatively brief TV coverage. Look at how few newspapers endorsed Trump, even among the strongly Republican ones.
Oh, and now we have the internet full of crap information too.
FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)Perfectly said!
May I repost this?
Let me know!
stopbush
(24,396 posts)Paladin
(28,261 posts)A responsible mainstream media didn't show up for this election. Unforgivable.
scarletlib
(3,411 posts)duffyduff
(3,251 posts)He is the one who created this monster, giving him non-stop coverage for ratings and ad revenue from the beginning when Trump announced. The other news outlets soon followed suit.
HRC had to be defeated simply because she wasn't good for ratings and ad revenue. It's that simple.
Zucker belongs in prison for treason.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)Hillary spent tens of millions while Trump spent next to nothing.
In effect, she got to pay for the very news "coverage" that was digging her political grave.
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)Response to stopbush (Original post)
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Glassunion
(10,201 posts)This was but one of them that compounded her loss
gulliver
(13,181 posts)It's like Star Wars. The media let the wookies win because they don't want their arms to get torn off.