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BernieSandersIsGod Donating Member (147 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 09:50 AM
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MSNBC is just fucking horrible. Pelosi gets up and says she's not going to talke about Weiner...
She then begins to start her next sentence about the number of days since the GOP took the house and how they haven't presented 1 jobs bill. MSNBC disconnects to talk about why she isn't talking about Weiner.
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deminks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 09:52 AM
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1. She expected them to listen now that we have the moral high ground.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:55 AM
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24. Eventually, it will be obvious that the media has jumped the shark.
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 09:52 AM
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2. If it bleeds it leads unless it's a penis.
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:50 AM
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20. tell that to John Bobbitt
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sasha031 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 09:52 AM
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3. I just said that, our media is disgusting
it is just like the enquire
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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 09:53 AM
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4. That is the entire problem with our media now.. it is all about scandal
you can beat your head against the rocks with facts.. and it goes no where.
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krabigirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 11:06 AM
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27. Agreed.
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 09:59 AM
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5. Screw her - she wouldn't have to talk about him if she would have supported him
I'm not defending MSNBC but IMO Pelosi, Schultz and some of the other congressional Democrats acquitted themselves very poorly in this whole sorry episode.

Of course she doesn't want to talk about Weiner, she's probably ashamed of herself.

It would be sort of poetic justice if Pelosi was the next Dem they decided to go after.
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Johonny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:09 AM
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8. +1
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:51 AM
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21. Yep. n/t
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krabigirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 11:07 AM
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28. This.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:01 AM
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6. That is why I don't waste my time with any of the MSM outlets. If I watch news, I get it from
Bloomberg.

Everything else is entertainment tonight
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Cid_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:03 AM
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7. That's when I turned off...
They don't normally cover her weekly presser, she didn't address what they wanted so off they go.
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PatSeg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:11 AM
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9. Sadly it isn't entirely the media's fault though
Some of the blame falls upon the viewers who have such a short attention span, that "news" programs often avoid anything in depth or thought provoking. They know people are sitting there with remotes in hand, ready to switch channels if they aren't constantly stimulated.
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kenfrequed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:33 AM
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16. Feh
Do you think they can actually tell percisely how long a viewer is watching a given story on a second by second basis and make decisions based on that?

No, this kind of reporting and "journalism" is decided on by people that want reporting to be a money making venture and to ruffle as few corporate feathers as possible.

This reporting is designed and if you detect a bias between reporting of democratic scandals and republican scandals well surprise! It isn't a coincidence.
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PatSeg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:56 AM
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25. Its also about ratings and sponsors
so in that sense it is a "money making venture". I'm quite sure MSNBC like other networks use focus groups to determine what holds the viewers attention. This kind of news reporting has been prevalent ever since the beginning of 24/7 news stations.

I don't think the viewer's attention span is the only consideration, but it certainly appears to be an important one.
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economistman Donating Member (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:40 AM
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18. Absolutely
I agree. It's all salacious. But Weiner didn't help much either.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 12:09 PM
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William769 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:13 AM
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10. Well she did have a hand in making one more unemployed.
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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:14 AM
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11. If Weiner had resigned a week ago, they wouldn't have had that excuse...
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peace13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:20 AM
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12. You can dream! n/t
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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:22 AM
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13. When was the last time you heard a Chris Lee story?
Once a politician is out of office, it's yesterday's news.
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JoePhilly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:25 AM
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14. YUP ... Ed Shultz did this the other day too.
Obama had given a jobs speech earlier in the day, in passing, Ed mentioned that it happened, plays no video, quotes nothing from it, then spends 20 minutes on Weiner.

Then later in the show, Ed complains that Obama isn't talking about jobs enough.
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:27 AM
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15. I can't wait to watch Current TV on Monday
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toddwv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:35 AM
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17. I turned MSNBC off again today.
Been doing that alot. Now I have to decide if I want to watch their daytime "news" coverage or just find some other background noise.
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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:49 AM
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19. Maybe Pelosi would have some credibility
Edited on Thu Jun-16-11 10:50 AM by nichomachus
had she gone after the real criminals -- like Bush, instead of giving him a free pass for his crimes against the Constitution and against humanity.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:52 AM
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22. But at least she defended America from Twitter. n/t
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 12:43 PM
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31. I'm beginning to despise her as much as my Republican relatives
do.
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onpatrol98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 01:29 PM
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35. Something fishy
Pelosi seemed to want to dump him awfully quick. Apparently, there was no love loss before this incident. If everyone had laid low for a minute he could have weathered the storm. But they were asking for his resignation before republicans.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 10:54 AM
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23. our media just sucks
the country is in a crisis, record unemployment and they are talking about sex scandals, the dumbing down of americans continues.
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krabigirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 11:06 AM
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26. Msnbc, fox, CNN..they are all horrible. No way will I watch that tabloid crap.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 12:33 PM
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30. MSNBComcast. I refuse to watch any cable news, it's all shit.
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LadyHawkAZ Donating Member (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 12:48 PM
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32. And this surprises you?
What surprises ME is that she was talking about something else.
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laundry_queen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 01:19 PM
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33. CNN did this too - they couldn't break away fast enough. nt
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aint_no_life_nowhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-11 01:25 PM
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34. I noticed that too
The media have been telling us that Weiner needs to resign so that the Democrats can get back on message about medicare. Yet, the minute we learn that Weiner is going, the media still don't cover the issues. News executives are now meeting behind closed doors to try to find some other empty drama-du-jour to talk about instead of medicare and jobs.
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