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Mass

(27,315 posts)
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 07:49 PM Jan 2016

Fox better than MSNBC and CNN?

When it comes to covering Trump, they are apparently the only of the three major cable news networks not to carry the two idiots live.

Not that I am going to watch FOX , but I have pretty much stopped to watching MSNBC. As somebody tweeted a while ago, Trump has 2 SuperPAC, named CNN and MSNBC.

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Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
1. MSNBC appears to be running trump infomercials approximately 24hrs a day.
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 07:54 PM
Jan 2016

That would in fact make Fox a more reliable news source.

emulatorloo

(44,116 posts)
3. It would appear so unless one actually listened to what MSNBC was saying vs FOX
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 07:57 PM
Jan 2016

See my post below for an example.

tishaLA

(14,176 posts)
5. their pathetic chase for ratings
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 08:01 PM
Jan 2016

is making them unwatchable. They don't even realize how much they're alienating their core viewers.

Or maybe they do and they just don't care.

emulatorloo

(44,116 posts)
2. MSNBC is very critical of trump. It is not as if they are showing Trump clips without comment.
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 07:55 PM
Jan 2016

Rachel Maddow did a great piece a little while back, guest was a Presidential historian. They drew parallels between how Donald Trump was campaigning and how racist anti-segregation George Wallace campaigned for president in 1968. Showed back to back clips, was uncanny how similar they were.

brooklynite

(94,502 posts)
4. The biggest media mistake made this election was HuffPo putting Trump on the entertainment page...
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 08:00 PM
Jan 2016

...the fact that he could be nominee of one of our major parties and that he's even remotely competitive with the Democrats is newsworthy.

Mass

(27,315 posts)
6. Totally disagree.
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 08:03 PM
Jan 2016

I cannot say for sure he would have been the nominee, but he feeds with media coverage and it does not matter what he says.

He got 3 times more coverage than the rest of the candidates (dems and GOP). This helps him as he knows perfectly well how the media work.

Mass

(27,315 posts)
9. I can see that from people posting here.
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 08:06 PM
Jan 2016

They totally misunderstand how Trump manipulates the media and us. He knows perfectly well that exposure matters, particularly if you are not going to attack the man on his strengths.

We have promoted a mediocre businessman who got his money from his family in a populist icon that his supporters believe is a self made man.

 

tabasco

(22,974 posts)
8. It's all the fucking same.
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 08:06 PM
Jan 2016

Please turn that shit off. Cut the cable/dish connection that supports plutocracy propaganda.

Turn on Free Speech TV and Democracy Now with your internet connection.

 

tabasco

(22,974 posts)
11. I'm speaking to the DU audience in general.
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 08:25 PM
Jan 2016

I always plead with DU to stop supporting corporate propaganda and cut the cable.

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)
12. Fox is more in line with the Republican establishment.
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 08:27 PM
Jan 2016

And the establishment doesn't want the beast fed.

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