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In reply to the discussion: let's all give a big, rousing FUCK YOU to the media!! [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)They were as shocked as the rest of the country when Trump won. They presented the polls often (which showed Clinton winning). They thought the October surprise by Coomey was bad.
They gave Trump an outlet (finally Morning Joe quit having him on) because he wanted to go to the different political shows. They asked him good questions and let him bury himself.
I think they hawked the emails, but they also hawked Trump's failings. They replayed the imitating of the disabled reporter, the tape where Trump admits molesting women, Trump saying he wants to punch interlopers at his rallies in the face, and all the clownish and bizarre things Trump said and did.
There's news, and then there are the political talk shows. Two different things. News is news, and all Presidential election news should be reported. The political talk shows always discuss the big stories of the day and week. Joe Scarborough was quite vocal about the shocking weirdness and dishonesty of Trump. Many Republicans who were "never Trump" people were on the shows.
I see the investigations of the Russian connections and such...they are still just reporting on the news, and discussing those things on the talk shows because that's the news of the day regarding national politics.
I think they've been pretty balanced. Unless, of course, a show has a decided slant. Hannity is pro-Republican, always. Maddow is pro-left, always. Those are political entertainment talk shows, though, containing opinions, and are not "news" broadcasts. I think CNN is pretty neutral (the news part, altho it has opinion writers).
Just my take on it. Thanks to all the reporters, we're hearing about a lot of things that the politicians want to keep us from hearing.