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I am ashamed of the Fourth Estate that I once admired and wanted to be part of. With very few exceptions, there is no longer any attempt to be fair, balanced, or objective.
As a result, we can no longer look to the media for much in the way of the whole truth or sometimes any truth.
I am discouraged that this will be corrected in what's left of my lifetime.
Press encouraged to turn up heat on Trump | Washington Examiner
The video at the link is instructive if very limited in all the illustrations that could have been used.
In an election in which the coverage was so shamefully biased and relentlessly negative and questioned every word and nuance of Trump while giving Hillary much more gentle treatment, they are now encouraging the media to double down on that and get tough with Trump?
I am ashamed of the Fourth Estate that I once admired and wanted to be part of. With very few exceptions, there is no longer any attempt to be fair, balanced, or objective.
As a result, we can no longer look to the media for much in the way of the whole truth or sometimes any truth.
I am discouraged that this will be corrected in what's left of my lifetime.
Press encouraged to turn up heat on Trump | Washington Examiner
The video at the link is instructive if very limited in all the illustrations that could have been used.
In an election in which the coverage was so shamefully biased and relentlessly negative and questioned every word and nuance of Trump while giving Hillary much more gentle treatment, they are now encouraging the media to double down on that and get tough with Trump?
I am ashamed of the Fourth Estate that I once admired and wanted to be part of. With very few exceptions, there is no longer any attempt to be fair, balanced, or objective.
As a result, we can no longer look to the media for much in the way of the whole truth or sometimes any truth.
I am discouraged that this will be corrected in what's left of my lifetime.
it really has gotten bad. the amount of propaganda coming out of newspapers and television has gotten absurd. I don't believe anything they report any more.
Press encouraged to turn up heat on Trump | Washington Examiner
The video at the link is instructive if very limited in all the illustrations that could have been used.
In an election in which the coverage was so shamefully biased and relentlessly negative and questioned every word and nuance of Trump while giving Hillary much more gentle treatment, they are now encouraging the media to double down on that and get tough with Trump?
I am ashamed of the Fourth Estate that I once admired and wanted to be part of. With very few exceptions, there is no longer any attempt to be fair, balanced, or objective.
As a result, we can no longer look to the media for much in the way of the whole truth or sometimes any truth.
I am discouraged that this will be corrected in what's left of my lifetime.
This would be why the Donald tweets.
Press encouraged to turn up heat on Trump | Washington Examiner
The video at the link is instructive if very limited in all the illustrations that could have been used.
In an election in which the coverage was so shamefully biased and relentlessly negative and questioned every word and nuance of Trump while giving Hillary much more gentle treatment, they are now encouraging the media to double down on that and get tough with Trump?
I am ashamed of the Fourth Estate that I once admired and wanted to be part of. With very few exceptions, there is no longer any attempt to be fair, balanced, or objective.
As a result, we can no longer look to the media for much in the way of the whole truth or sometimes any truth.
I am discouraged that this will be corrected in what's left of my lifetime.
...says the concerned citizen who has cited a link from a brazenly partisan tabloid to bolster her OP.
it really has gotten bad. the amount of propaganda coming out of newspapers and television has gotten absurd. I don't believe anything they report any more.
it really has gotten bad. the amount of propaganda coming out of newspapers and television has gotten absurd. I don't believe anything they report any more.
I am certainly no trend setter, but I stopped watching TV back in 2004. I think, in the age of the internet, all of us en masse' should completely stop tuning into the news channels, get your news/view those programs you like on youtube, etc...
With a huge hole in their audience counts, advertisers will start pulling up stakes, putting their dollars elsewhere and this mongrel horde of liars and purveyors of false narratives will die out even sooner than anticipated.
With good riddance.
The 4th estate has become the 5th column.
The press should turn up the heat on each and every politician and the overarching Republocrat structure, get back to some damned journalism instead of news-entertainment. Trump, in many ways, presents himself as an easy target though and given that our pres is news-entertainment, I think we'll see them acting more aggressive towards Trump, though not in some positive way where they're assessing anything political, but rather just spewing is Trump-isms all over the place, as if Trump needs help with that.
Good post. I think it was Mark Twain, who didn't have the benefit of television, who once said: "“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” Sadly that does seem to be the case from most media sources these days.
I do think Fox News has made a difference. The Left hates it because it is pretty much the ONLY television source that is providing BOTH sides of issues and all there is to know about the issues these days, which of course brands it as a conservative hack medium in their eyes. They can't stand having THEIR side scrutinized and refuse to accept any extenuating circumstances that were involved when somebody they despise is scrutinized.
But because Fox does at least try to be as fair and balanced as possible in their news reporting, they have snagged an audience larger by a significant margin than all the other cable news sources combined. Advertisers are impressed by numbers like that and numbers like that command larger advertising dollars. But even Fox is prone to report a developing news story as news instead of developing and as such is hard to trust for absolute facts all the time.
MSNBC was the first of Fox's competition to at least attempt a bit more objectivity in their news coverage and commentary in an attempt to cut into Fox's advantage. They haven't hurt Fox at all yet--they are still too heavily slanted to left to appeal to the average Fox viewer--but they sure cut into CNN's ratings and quickly moved into the No. 2 slot behind Fox much of the time. CNN seems slower to catch on, but they have the prestigious CNNI to cover their losses on the domestic front. But their efforts to woo Megyn Kelly suggest they would like to improve their domestic ratings too.
Trump cannot depend on the media to represent him fairly or accurately, so he uses the social media to get around the mainstream media and that is where those 'Trump-isms' mostly come from.
Trump-isms come from his ignorant, egotistical, childish outbursts and attacks he so loves on Twitter. President-elect isn't wise or savvy enough to understand that there is behavior that is unbecoming of a President and that as the representative of the entire Republic, he must behave in a proper, civil, couth, and Presidential manner.
I will accept your bias against my source, but I was taught that debate was rebutting what was said instead of attacking your opponent. Try it. You might like it.
I would be happy if the media turned up the heat on ALL politicians...across the board and on both sides of the aisle and also on the talking potato heads...but I don't expect that to happen. So that leaves me with this question: Why is this encouragement toward turning up the heat on Trump any different from what the media has been doing all along?
Well I hope you feel better writing that.
It has been my long experience that because he isn't establishment and because he isn't a leftist/statist/progressive/liberal/Democrat etc., he could qualify for sainthood, put a chicken in every pot, cure cancer, reverse climate change, end world hunger, and establish world peace, and you would still describe him in the same terms.
Calling out the bias of your source link is a meta-criticism of the point you were trying to make. Sorry you missed that.
Easy to miss given the vacuous nature of your post itself.Calling out the bias of your source link is a meta-criticism of the point you were trying to make. Sorry you missed that.
It's been my long experience that insider Corporate CEOs with ties to political families, such as the Clintons, aren't actually as outside the establishment as many would like to believe. And despite the fact that these actual insiders will run things fairly similarly to the status quo, that since he isn't leftist/statist/progressive/liberal/Democrat etc., that while he continues our wars, sells out to Corporate interest, grows the government, expands Federal powers, destroys further any remnant of free-market we had left, etc. that you will still describe him as the neigh second coming.
Further more, once Trump is close to qualifying for sainthood, put a chicken in every pot, cure cancer, reverse climate change, end world hunger, and establish world peace, etc, come back and we'll talk about my assessment of that Reality TV r-tard.
The political establishment in Washington has had their shot for decades now and things just get worse.
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