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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 09:21 AM Jun 2019

The most important thing for the media today is the debates. The concentration camps

rate about third place and the discussion about them will soon disappear. However, there is so much in the deplorable's basket until it leaves you speechless.

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The most important thing for the media today is the debates. The concentration camps (Original Post) mfcorey1 Jun 2019 OP
This is one of the reasons Hillary lost StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #1
Goal for them today is to pick a fight with Watchfoxheadexplodes Jun 2019 #2
 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
1. This is one of the reasons Hillary lost
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 09:32 AM
Jun 2019

She had only one serious problem that the press focused on - emails - and they zeroed in on it and hammered and hammered and hammered on it so that it looked like a bigger deal than it was. On the other hand, Trump had 2 new scandals a day and it was difficult for all of the press to focus on one thing obsessively until it stuck. As soon as they dug their teeth into one, a new one popped up to divert attention from the last one. As a result, his scandals, which were much bigger and more consequential than anything related to Hillary, never got any real traction or did any serious damage to him.

And that's what's been happening throughout his presidency. Some of it can be blamed on the media's shallowness, lack of focus, and obsession with the latest shiny object. But a lot of it I don't blame on the media because how are they supposed to cover everything in depth (especially with fewer resources) when things are coming at them from all sides every day like this? It's just too much - like trying to drink from a firehose.

Watchfoxheadexplodes

(3,496 posts)
2. Goal for them today is to pick a fight with
Wed Jun 26, 2019, 09:36 AM
Jun 2019

Biden/Sanders/Warren

They won't be happy until a horse race between two of them. Then again not happy until it's a horse race with trump and a democrat.

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