Hate to say it, but MSNBC, CNN, and the other Faux new outlets brought us Trump. Free of Charge.

[Kajun Gal]

They kept putting him on the teletube because it drew ratings. And then he won. Now, tonight, MSNBC is trying to do some sort of marathon "get out the vote" thang, and what for? Ratings? To get rid of him? Well, in my humble opinion, they shoulda thought about that back in 2015 and 2016 before they gave him free air time so their ratings would go up. Trump definitely knows how to spend Other People's Money. He did that quite well. And we were fooled. Never be fooled again.

And I truly hate to say this. I truly do.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. not really

They delivered the facts. Stupid people misinterpreted them. The real dummies believed Fox News.

[unblock]

4. Technically, ok, they did deliver facts, but they also delivered lies and promoted their bias

Something like 80% of the airtime was about Donnie, and of the airtime about Hillary, something like 80% was negative.

Can you really blame people for misinterpreting the situation when the media is falling over themselves to catch an empty podium that may soon have donnie on it and nearly all the talk about Hillary is about email and Benghazi scandal?

the fact is that the Hillary scandals were complete nonsense, yet the covered them obsessively as if they were the crimes of the century.

That they did say some facts doesn't change the fact that they heavily promoted Donnie with an enormous amount of free exposure.

[Downtown Hound]

5. They spent WAAAYYYY too much time on Hillary's emails

and hardly anything on Trump's mountain of scandals that dwarfed that one. They didn't just report the facts. They selectively decided which ones to report and ignored others. And if you think that wasn't done intentionally, I have some beachfront property in Arizona to sell you.

[uponit7771]

8. 60% of HRC coverage from msm was about emails

[BumRushDaShow]

11. "They delivered the facts."

They did no such thing until AFTER he was elected. They had provided him with almost $5 billion in free advertisement, but he returned the favor by threatening to kick them out of the Press Room, and threatening to revoke press credentials and pull broadcast licenses.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. Which facts were delivered by sticking a camera in front of an empty

podium for half an hour? As if some great proclamation was about to be delivered.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Have to agree

and it started with Joe Scab every darn morning and his promoting Trump as well as taking Trumps phone calls live on air. The real Kicker was he and Mika going to a special meet up with Trump at Mara Largo.

[uponit7771]

9. +1, Good point ... Mika even admitted the coverage was biased

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Having a family member

who is some what connected to many persons working in Media Production and Writing,one gets the real story of what the hell is going on in and around what you and I see on that TV machine.


Trump was and is a result of what some had forecast once the Media was captured by Corporate America. Comcast and it's largest Stockholders worked for years to create the Trump narrative. Once they got control of NBC Universal,they stepped up their game in order to be one of two Cable Companies that would control every aspect of the Corporate message.


Example,have been hearing about what the hell is happening to our Arm Forces Personnel in the Mid East. Not. Our here is a biggee,what about those thousands of folks in North Carolina and Florida who are not getting FEMA help. Not. Are you hearing about how the Trump tariffs are killing the working folks. Not.

[libdem4life]

3. That's like admitting they are Fake News. They are not.

Trump is a media master...a con man extraordinaire...can't blame the press. That's his mojo. The American Tea Party, then the Republican Party were taken in. He'll be gone before long. Just a nasty blip in our political history. Don't give him the power to foul things up for good.

Many were not fooled. Just enough, plus the Russians and a lot of social media shenanigans and the Electoral College mess, don't forget, to get him in.

We need to focus on getting ourselves out of it...not blaming anyone or any media. Well, maybe Fox Entertainment.

[randr]

6. The MSMs did not elect this idiot

The people who did not vote put us in this situation

[KentuckyWoman]

7. News exists only to get you to watch more news.

If you get any info out of it, pure chance.

I believed after Obama whoever the Rs picked would be it. America usually swings back and forth. Media helped starve out the other candidates, but choosing is probably a cross between voters and el eletion fraud.