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RAB910

(3,484 posts)
Fri Jun 10, 2022, 10:43 AM Jun 2022

how is the media and people in general treating last night's hearing

what are you seeing and hearing? Is the media taking the hearings seriously and discussing them? Are people you know or don't know talking about the hearing?


I mean all the evidence of treason will do little good if people don't pay attention

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Scrivener7

(50,897 posts)
1. I did a little check this morning. The WP and the NYT had it as a top story
Fri Jun 10, 2022, 10:45 AM
Jun 2022

and were covering the receipts the Committee brought. Also USAToday.

NBC, ABC and CBS news were covering it prominently and positively.

CNBC was ignoring it - a small bit way down the site's front page.

Someone reported this morning that Bloomberg was shitting all over it. But that's the only one other than the usual suspects that I have heard was doing that.

Scrivener7

(50,897 posts)
3. Sadly, I agree with you, and they had a real uphill battle on that front. I think they did really
Fri Jun 10, 2022, 11:34 AM
Jun 2022

well.

But isn't it sad that that's true. That the media can air it or discount it at will?

Claustrum

(4,845 posts)
4. It's not just how it's covered.
Fri Jun 10, 2022, 11:52 AM
Jun 2022

It's also if it becomes the "talk of the town". The media can do all it wants (like how CNN and MSNBC covered TFG in 2015 negatively). If people don't talk about him or Jan 6 amongst themselves and share what's provided, then people will just not know and ignore it. It has to become interesting and the current hot topics so they pay attention so that they can talk about it next day with their friends, family, and coworkers, etc.

newdayneeded

(1,954 posts)
5. Just overheard co-workers,
Fri Jun 10, 2022, 12:23 PM
Jun 2022

They won't watch a second of it, the only way they'd watch is if there was equal hearings on all the voter fraud that "they saw with their own eyes", not kidding, they said that.

Scrivener7

(50,897 posts)
9. And part of the genius of the hearings is that it wasn't aimed at those people. It didn't waste
Fri Jun 10, 2022, 06:46 PM
Jun 2022

time trying to convince those who cannot be convinced. It showed the film. It brought the receipts. The cult will never turn, but there are some who will.

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