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stopbush

(24,392 posts)
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 11:35 AM Sep 2016

The Heart of the Media Narrative: Hillary Is Really, Really Horrible

That's the message they're putting out day after day.

It doesn't really matter that the media isn't giving much airplay to Trump's scandals. If they did - and they may well do so eventually - it will only be to provide a reinforcement for their "Hillary is horrible" narrative: "Look how bad Trump is. And yet, Hillary is so much worse that she can't even beat him! She is deeply flawed, untrustworthy, etc. Any other candidate would be mopping the floor with Trump."

So you may as well buckle in, because it's going to be a very rough ride until November. The media has their narrative about Hillary, a narrative that has been crafted over a 30-year period, based in large part on the media's long-standing hatred of Hillary Clinton (a hatred that has been identified by none other than Mark "Obama is a dick" Halperin).

Team Hillary just needs to forge ahead with the winning strategy that has served them to date. Neither they nor Hillary's millions of supporters are going to be successful in getting our embarrassingly lazy media to change the sour tune they've been playing for decades.

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The Heart of the Media Narrative: Hillary Is Really, Really Horrible (Original Post) stopbush Sep 2016 OP
Any other Dem candidate would also be villified by the MSM vlyons Sep 2016 #1

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
1. Any other Dem candidate would also be villified by the MSM
Tue Sep 6, 2016, 12:09 PM
Sep 2016

It's what they do. They already learned that swiftboating a candidate's positive accomplishments works great. So keep using that tactic. The MSM is owned by corporations that sell advertising for Big Pharma, Monsanto, BPOil, Exxon, Credit Cards, General Mills, and a plethora of consumer products. News Depts are "entertainment." MSM knows which side its bread is buttered on.

They don't however own social media. So keep posting and sharing real info. It will get picked up and read.

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