The apathy in the media regarding Brett Kavanaugh is a national scandal

[deminks]

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/09/06/apathy-media-regarding-brett-kavanaugh-national-scandal/221221

Picture this: A controversial, deeply unpopular president mired in scandal makes a Supreme Court nomination that his party is desperately trying to jam through the process before virtually anything is known about the nominee. Then, in the middle of it, an anonymous senior official in the president’s administration pens an op-ed in The New York Times that lays out serious questions about the president’s fitness for office and the dangers he poses to the country. You’d think that conversation in the media would focus on the fact that this president -- who is so unstable that his own senior staff members are sounding the alarm -- is about to make a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

You’d be wrong.

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Instead, the Beltway press has been far more interested in gossiping about the chaos within the White House than discussing what it expected to be “very long days” filled with “long, boring” testimony. A Media Matters review of the broadcast networks’ morning and evening news programs, for instance, showed that since the first day of Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings ended, the networks have spent over twice as much time covering leaked passages of Bob Woodward’s upcoming book Fear -- which reported what we already knew about the volatile environment within the White House -- and the anonymous op-ed than they did covering the Kavanaugh hearing.

What should have already been a newsworthy story about a scandalous process including a potential cover-up should have been even more newsworthy when you consider the fact that this was all happening in order to rush through a Supreme Court pick chosen by a person whose own staff says he isn’t fit to be in office.

You’d think the press would be interested in covering it.

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Squirrel!

[Moostache]

1. "National Scandal" has lost its meaning...

We have been gas lit and the press, instead of staying on one outrage and following it up, simply bounces from story to story and makes no effort to see that anything is actually consequential...case in point, the border kidnappings...no one is covering this as a "above the fold" scandal, but believe it that if this were a Democratic administration, the GOP pigs would be rending garments and bemoaning the loss of "values" in our leadership...

The whole thing makes me sick, makes me want to emigrate to a sane country and watch this one implode from a safe distance...problem is that with the shit head in charge here now, there IS NOWHERE that is a "safe" distance...

[SHRED]

2. The mainstream media is falling all over themselves claiming

That his confirmation is a done deal.

Truly sickening.