I'm tired of this crap.

[kpete]

@owillis

The “liberal media” keeps making it clear they only want to listen to one group of Americans even after two elections show their point of view is in the minority

Today, @latimesopinion devoted our entire letters page to Trump voters.

https://latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-11-14/handing-our-entire-letters-page-over-trump-voters

2016, 3 million more Americans choose the democrat

Media: We need to hear from Trump voters

2020, 5 million more Americans choose the democrat

Media: We need to hear from Trump voters

I’m tired of this crap.

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[jimfields33]

1. I think they are looking at the election as a whole

and not just the president.

[JHB]

12. That would explain once. This kind of talk happens all the time...

...despite a lot of us already knowing what and how Trump voters think because they never shut up about it.

And what will the LATimes get? A bunch of letters rehashing the blinkered view of the world they get from RW media, where everything they don't like is "socialism," and accusations that we're "elitist" in the same sentence with condescending stereotyping of us and caricatures of our views.

A lot of us have tried, only to see any inroads we made wiped out the next time they listen to Rush or Sean or whoever they like.

[jimfields33]

21. You are so right.

I think talk radio will diminish some when rush is done.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Did They Say The Reverse In 2018?

Unless they devoted time to exploring why voters flipped the house & a couple of governorships when an R was in the WH, then this effort is pandering to the minority.
If they didn't, the overall election defense falls flat.

[mopinko]

2. boy howdy.

[Shermann]

3. It is basically circular logic

The way in which voices are heard in a democracy is a polling process called voting.

You don't go and poll the losing side again in order to amplify that voice.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. when i complain about this , i get yelled at. agree.

ive been hearing this for 30 + years and there is no baisis for this complaint. most of the m$n are conservative owned. and the tv stations always interview the conservative first from what i have seen.we are almost always locked out.

[FakeNoose]

5. We need to stop referring to them as the "liberal" media

Clearly they aren't liberal, and they're afraid of being rendered irrelevant once Chump is gone.

This goes double for Facebook and Twitter, which have no right to be considered media anyway.

[OMGWTF]

18. The media is only as liberal as its corporate owners.

[haele]

7. Trump voters are entertaining in a "look at the rube" way.

It's patronizing and disrespectful, but it's a media trope they reinforce - that somehow, the cranky, plain spoken, rural "salt of the earth" types are realists and True Americans (tm), unlike those Smarty-pants urban types with their diversity and crazy pie in the sky idealism.
Plus, Democrats tend to talk in long, involved sentences, which does not work when you only have a three minute segment to report. Rural Republicans will give you one or two sentences with no more than ten words and no need to explain concepts and provide background or reasoning for their opinions.

Media only wants to provide soundbites, not any real information. The average Trump voter will provide both the quicky soundbite and immediate emotional impact.

Haele

[BarbD]

23. Right on! They are in the entertainment business, not the news business.

We haven't had real news since Eric Sevareid, Walter Cronkite et al.

Paddy Chevsky said it best in "Network".

[TexasBushwhacker]

34. Back then, the news was considered a public service

and wasn't expected to make money. Cable news stopped all that.

[jaxexpat]

8. Don't worry, it's all up hill from here.

Ratings prefer freak show.

[c-rational]

9. Lies, lies, lies. There is no more liberal media. Corporate media frames what they want to be the

discussion. We need to stop being their consumers.

[Lonestarblue]

10. I watched Fareed on CNN this morning.

He only interviewed Republicans: H. R. McMaster, Peggy Noonan (ugh), and John Bolton (double ugh), and Newt Gingrich was cited. None of these people have any power to do anything about Trump. Why is the media not asking current Republican leaders who are insisting that Trump won to come on Sunday morning shows and explain just how that can be true, Mike Pompeo for example. I’m sure he would refuse, but that refusal should be part of the story. Why is the media not asking the important questions: What game are Republicans playing, and why are they playing it? It isn’t about Donald Trump’s feelings. It’s about their power and their ability to undermine democratic principles and norms. They should just be asked if their aim is anarchy because that seems to be their goal.

Their game, whatever their reasons, is dangerous for this country. We already have a divided country with millions of heavily armed white supremacists itching to start a civil war. Why does the media not ask Republicans why the are promoting a lie that encourages white supremacists to act to overcome a legitimate election.

I too am tired of this crap, but I’ve been tired of the media for a long time now.

Edited to add this: After thinking about this for a bit, I went to Fareed’s Facebook site and wrote a comment similar to my comments above. The comments are public, and I hope will make him and others question what Republican leaders are doing and why. We need to start complaining more when the media fails.

[dbonds]

11. It is time for trump voters to listen to liberals and try to understand us.

We did it for them last time. And there was some legit complaints mixed in with other 'bad-traits'. Trump voters to listen to us and understand why and what we are saying.

[SharonClark]

15. Agree.

[LiberalLovinLug]

25. So true

I don't think I've heard that suggestion ever.
Its either both sides have to listen to each other
or
Democratic voters have to listen to Trump voters

[BobTheSubgenius]

13. While it's true that the majority of reporters and talking heads lean left,

major media outlets are run by people - usually men - with net worth running into 9 or 10 figures. Billionaires are rarely liberal.

[SharonClark]

22. Why do you think the majority of reporters

and talking heads lean left? Are you also referring to radio, newspapers, and tv?

Any evidence?

[SharonClark]

14. I understand why you're upset.

The Des Moines Register wrote an editorial about overcoming the urban-rural divide and the first online response was from a repug saying the Register needed to quit promoting liberal ideas and writers, ignoring the conservative guest editorials and commentary the Register publishes regularly.

If the LA Times wants to hear from trump supporters then they should tune into right wing talk radio and social media. It’s easier than turning over the letters page to them.

[OMGWTF]

20. I hate it when newspapers print a letter to the editor

that is full of damn lies. It gives the bullshit credibility and dumbasses will take this wildly incorrect opinion as fact. Wish the editors would add a little sidebar about how the letter may be the person’s opinion but they are wrong AF.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

16. Media bias is neither right nor left, itsmostly in favor of conflict/controversy which translates to

more clicks which translates to more$$$$

Trump/repub obstruction is working for them.

Im not sure why more people cant resist the clickbait - just say NO. After so many years I think we know what they are going to say anyway, so why bother Mostly some version of "libs are bad, cons are good."

[Jon King]

17. Only 29% of US economic output voted for Trump...

Enough already, the future are the Dems. The growing suburb metro areas in AZ, GA, NC, TX are Dems. The young are Dems. The majority of Hispanics growing the population are Dems.

Stop trying to placate people stuck the past. With every 4 years their economic power and numbers grow less and less. Trump was the last gasp, he had everything break his way and its now over.

China just signed a huge trade deal, the Asian and Indian kids are training in tech and engineering. Enough trying to go backwards. The progressives are the future of America. The future is technology, educating our workforce in green energy. Time to move on and any of these folks who want to be included, great. If not, oh well.

[BadgerMom]

19. What utter crap.

[BarbD]

24. Short but sweet.

You've said it all in a few words. Thanks.

[BusyBeingBest]

26. I agree. Stop listening to the losers and malcontents.

They are the ones who need to get with the program. Not us.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

27. It really is maddening! Why?

Why must we hear from the people whose loudmouth cult leader speaks for them all the damn time? We know who they are. We know what they are. Done!

Aarrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhh!

[AmericanCanuck]

28. Freaks always get more attention

If you have 100 normally dressed people at a party and one guest dressed as a clown, who will get more attention?

[Blue Owl]

31. Me too. Enough with the M$M's ridiculous pandering to the fat piece of shit.

[Cha]

32. Rt! That must have been some Boring SHIT..

Yeah, let's hear from the thoroughly Demented brainwashed cult of the guy who says "I won" when he Fucking LOST.

[Rice4VP]

33. During the election it was endless focus groups of

“suburban women” who voted for Trump in 2016 and lied and said they were voting for Biden in 2020. They did this is Iowa and I started to believe that Biden might win Iowa. These women are liars. The polls vs. election results made that clear

The far more interesting group were the Black voters who stayed home in 2016 and young people who never voted and decided to vote for Biden in 2020. This actually transpired