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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 08:44 AM Nov 2018

Turned on the Morning Joe.................immediately turned it off .......................

they are non-stop on the refugee humanitarian crises from Honduran, and El Salvador to help gin up the right wing fascist bullshit, by calling it a "fucking caravan".......................went over to Democracy Now and listened to a parent Guttenburg who's daughter Amie (sp) was murdered at Parkland, FL, and how the younger generation is mobilizing to vote......................one network talking about the way they want to demoralize and inflame the right wing hate to pad the voters data for the right wing Bullshit , and the other network talking about how to solve military weapons not being able to be purchased and used on the streets of this country ....................FUCK YOU......................MSNBC and your dog whistle media coverage especially on Morning Joe...............


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mucifer

(23,537 posts)
3. Lots of undocumented Mexicans who immigrate to the USA are refugees, too.
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 09:03 AM
Nov 2018

The drug cartels are very lethal and terrorize and murder many innocent people in small towns.

Yonnie3

(17,434 posts)
4. I just don't turn it on anymore.
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 09:12 AM
Nov 2018

I do turn on the cable news channels if there is something breaking (my definition not theirs).

I refuse to listen to the babble of the TV "personalities." They take forever to get to the point (valid or not) if they have one.

I read news articles and editorials on-line. I can go back and re-read a sentence to be sure I understood correctly, pause and research something if I want, and go at my own speed. Doing it this way has helped me stay more level headed.

I get on Twitter, not to see who got one upped or what the latest memes are, but to be alerted to news stories. We also have some local activists who tweet notes on every government meeting in the area. This information is very important and not available on the other media.

I would encourage others to try it my way. I understand people absorb information in different ways so I don't think my way is the only way.

I hope your day gets better!

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
8. I usually go to Democracy Now first and then I head over to
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 09:38 AM
Nov 2018

Talking Points Memo, The Guardian, National Memo, Raw Story, Share Blue, Crooks and Liars, Media Matters , once in a while to The Hill, or Politco, not my fan favorites especially the The Hill.....................and then I see if the talking heads take from one news source.......................this morning they took from the fox news source and the right wing talking heads and the BS playbook................

Yonnie3

(17,434 posts)
11. Sounds like you beat 'em to it! :)
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 09:45 AM
Nov 2018

I used to be interested in their (talking heads) take on things. No so much anymore.

I'm an older person. Things sure have changed. I am glad I don't have to wait for magazines in the mail and hoof it down to the pipe shop to get the NYT.

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
10. Yepper, spot on.................
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 09:42 AM
Nov 2018

and twinkle toes................wants a division on the line.............because he can do that.

I would really like to start a ballot measure in New York to strip him and his family of there birthrights................if I lived in New York...........................why not...................to fight a racists POS, then what would he and his family do................yell discrimination...................yes I am discriminating against you........................or him and his family................now deal with it

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
12. I can just imagine...................debt, and things like that ...............
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 09:45 AM
Nov 2018

This Mid Terms is really exposing how the MSM is presenting themselves, they see the BS coming out of the white house, they see and report on a do nothing Congress, that is basically attacking the poor and middle class, and then they try to present information to keep the same BS in power..................the same powers that want to attack them ....................absolutely amazing................

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
9. I stopped watching after the coup in Nov 2016
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 09:39 AM
Nov 2018

Its not missed at all.

There is no point giving them your attention.

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