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In reply to the discussion: 'This is not normal': Kurt Eichenwald blasts reporters for being afraid of questioning Trump [View all]Mc Mike
(9,107 posts)50. Agree about the media ownership.
There are good journos on tv and in the press, but the top people serve the owners.
I guess the fight has to play out in the organizational structure, where good reporters sway their editors and producers, who then have to push back against the top managers, show those managers that big money and the right want reality based media dead.
We can support the good ones through citizen customer feedback thanking the media outlets for good work, negative feedback and boycotts to punish the bad ones for bad reporting decisions. PEN is a good org, and there are a lot of good media outlets that aren't mass media, like Dem Now!, the Nation. We can nudge the vacillating larger media into more respectable reality based reporting.
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'This is not normal': Kurt Eichenwald blasts reporters for being afraid of questioning Trump [View all]
DonViejo
Dec 2016
OP
"We have got to demand press conferences. We have got to stop covering his tweets like theyre news"
Cha
Dec 2016
#1
It would be instructive for everyone to read up on John Peter Zenger.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Dec 2016
#4
I am sure it had nothing to do with trump having a secret meeting with them and chewing them out
still_one
Dec 2016
#5
Seriously. His cabinet appts are just obscene -- yet the media continues idiotically giggling over
anneboleyn
Dec 2016
#29
This works if the reporters are free from their controllers and do not have to fear losing
RKP5637
Jan 2017
#52
Yeap, saw this ... then the rest of them gave the "Trump supporters don't care" punk ass'd
uponit7771
Dec 2016
#14
The medias reputation is taking a big hit and they dont seem to understand this.
lancelyons
Dec 2016
#16
Every time I hear the words 'trump' and 'tweet' or 'twitter' I turn of the radio, shut off the tv or
mahina
Jan 2017
#46
Two nights ago/Friday, CNN covered Trump's tweet about Putin doing nothing.
no_hypocrisy
Jan 2017
#51