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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt is time, we need to go after the media
Republicans are the biggest threats to Western Democracies, but they are being enabled by the media.
Jake Tapper going after AOC for her concentration camp comment, while completely ignoring that there are concentration camps.
The media reporting Barr's comments about the Mueller report without ever contemplating that Barr might be lying.
The cluster fuck this week with the Mueller testimony.
Ignoring Pelosi's comments today YET focusing on a supposed Pelosi/AOC feud.
Ignoring all of the tRump history in 2015 and 2016.
We could go on and on. Point being, they are pushing propaganda. They aren't ignorant, they know what they are doing. It is anti-democracies, and it in no way follows journalistic ethics. If we don't take immediate action they will skate by and get tRump reelected.
We need to make them uncomfortable, unwanted, and unwelcomed. When they collectively take their jobs seriously then they get respect. Until then Tapper, Mitchell, Todd, Williams, Ruhle, and on and on, must be reminded daily that their focus on supporting their corporate master does not make them a journalist.
BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)The M$M gave us the fucking moron in 2016 and they are in the process of doing it again in 2020. They have sold this country to the enemy for ratings/$$$.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,235 posts)sickness, but unless there's push back protest of a 'corporate body' nature to effect any media reversal, it's gonna continue. They idolize/worship $$$.
dalton99a
(81,426 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)malaise
(268,846 posts)we have a winner
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,235 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)They (particularly the Cable Channels) are interested in the "horse race" narrative of politics and that is most evident in presidential campaign years which now have become two year events courtesy of their efforts to turn every Tweet and/or comment into a dramatic moment.
They are interested in filling airtime between ads for drugs we never knew we needed and selling ad slots to campaigns or interest groups.
Your best bet in my opinion is to turn off the Breathless 24/7 Breaking News Cable Noise and never look back.
hunter
(38,309 posts)Our television plays DVDs and Netflix. That's all it does. No worthless television news and opinion, no commercials...
I think once you quit television you never go back. It soon becomes intolerable noise.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Just trying to watch a movie this afternoon and the commercials were intolerable( 8 zillion each break and every one louder than the last one). I agree that streaming and DVDs are the answer, at least for now
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)Vinca
(50,250 posts)Mister Ed
(5,927 posts)... people by the millions need to tune them out, and instead tune in to any sources they can find that have high journalistic standards, or some semblance of ethics.
That's the only way to "go after" the bullshit-peddling media. Anything else creates controversy that serves to increase viewership for them and their insipid advertisements.
OnDoutside
(19,949 posts)Brutalm
Baltimike
(4,140 posts)Kaiserguy
(740 posts)a line of Republican BS. All I want is an honest media.
Baltimike
(4,140 posts)and welcome to DU btw
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,911 posts)Slow down. Its a news, entertainment, opinion source.
What you mean is bring back the Fairness Doctrine so that political propaganda cannot flourish. And after that, idiots will still exist and complain Mueller wasnt energetic enough for them on TV. But the medium is responsible for balance, not just profit.
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)You either buy a lot of stock and use that power and/or go after their and hit their bottom line hard enough to make them cringe by going after advertisers and "product" line(s). To do this we either have to be rich enough to take them on ( ) or, much more realistically, set up/join a coop type group that concentrates on doing just this and works together.
Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts)That's all you need to know.
moondust
(19,967 posts)Opened his show calling the Mueller appearance a "dud" or something like that. The previous night I turned him off when he opened calling it a "big disappointment." Will probably just write him off like so many others even though he sometimes has good guests.
Will never forget how much responsibility NBC bears for creating this mess with the Apprentice hoax, propping up a failed (private, inherited) businessman with multiple bankruptcies as some sort of God-like judge of others.
ecstatic
(32,677 posts)that we have now. Everything from global warming to healthcare. Imagine a well informed populace putting pressure on their congress members. Think about how much further we'd be. Instead, we're going back to the 50s where only white men have a say and control of their own bodies.
Baltimike
(4,140 posts)ananda
(28,856 posts).. boycott.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Well Said!