New Year Resolution: Get the media to say the word "Lies" rather than "Pinocchios".

[SleeplessinSoCal]

We are treated like childten and we accept it. I think that treatment turns off a good number of people. Pretty sure we can handle calling out politicians when they lie. ESPECIALLY POTUS. We're 243 years old. Old enough to handle the truth. Old enough to demand the truth. Told to us in adult words.

Other terms to jettison in 2019?

[mucifer]

1. Even worse, they often parrot back what he dictates to them

[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. maybe treating us like adults will open those eyes a bit more.

I keep thinking about England's media. They use words far better than we do.

[mucifer]

3. "dt says x the Democrats say y both sides can't agree"

to which I say do your effing job media and tell us what is happening.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

4. the "both sides sides do it" I feel sure comes from the heads of the media.

As do those "Pinocchios". You can actually tell where their orders come from and where lines are drawn.

Educating the populace has got to be a goal for 2019.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

6. the idea struck me when hearing the term on NPR.

Maybe just a switch from Pinocchios to Whoppers.