The press conference with Jerry Nadler just ended. It is 12:39.

[SamKnause]

MSNBC and CNN couldn't be bothered to carry the press conference in its entirety.

I had to watch it on Fox news.

What the fuck is wrong with the media in this country ???

They just couldn't wait to start flapping their jaws about what was said in the press

conference before the press conference was over.

They missed some of the best parts.

[greyl]

1. Cspan worked, too.

MSNBC cut away a couple minutes before CNN.

[SamKnause]

3. Good for C-SPAN.

I was watching MSNBC, they cut away.

I switched to CNN, they cut away.

I switched to Fox and they keep on going to the end.

[greyl]

16. Surprised Fox covered it.

Did you stick around to see their commentary on it?

[SamKnause]

17. No, I did not see any of the commentary on Fox, MSNBC, or CNN.

As soon as MSNBC pundits started talking I switched to CNN.

As soon as CNN pundits started talking I switched to Fox.

When the press conference was over I turned it off.

[Autumn]

2. That's what they do. They don't want people to actually see and hear what our leaders have to say.

[Jose Garcia]

4. But Fox News does?

[SamKnause]

6. I am so sick of hearing their second hand fucking opinions.

You would have thought they would have wanted to hear what those 10 people on the committee had to say.

I think they are all in love with their own voices.

[StarfishSaver]

12. They think what they have to say about what's happening is more important that what's happening

Sheesh!

[kentuck]

5. As soon as they went back to Andrea, I went to C-SPAN...

I thought the Committee might have something more important to say than any of the talking heads.

[brooklynite]

7. Did it?

[kentuck]

11. I think so.

It was important to know what direction they were headed. I think they defined the direction they are going.

[SamKnause]

10. They did.

MSNBC and CNN missed out on a lot of what was said.

[dalton99a]

8. No shit.

[theophilus]

9. At the end of the day: they are ruled by the rich. There are good media types

but there are more bad media types, imo. They MUST have their horserace for the ratings. They must micro focus on the daily outrage and talk about it ad infinitum. They must NOT talk about global problems, like climate change, because the spending public might have a sad and the corporate masters might lose a bit of cash.

Britain's media did them in over the Brexit farce. We have been done in by Fox and the rest of the 24 hour prognosticators. Tragic. The Founders understood that Democracy depends on a well informed electorate. The electorate has grown but our knowledge possession has shrunk to sub par.

"My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge." I won't even start on wisdom.

[jayschool2013]

13. Good journalism is expensive, but it doesn't make a lot of money

Talk shows are cheap, and they make shitloads of money.

Stop watching talk shows and start reading your news (general advice, not to you specifically).

[spanone]

14. spin spin splin....a panel had to discuss it....ratings. bullshit.

[lostnfound]

15. Epstein story re Wexner - NYT reporter said he was college dropout but not that Barr hired him

Why did Bill Barr’s father hire Epstein the college dropout tormented teach at elite girls school?

Dr. Susan Cohn, class of ’75, recalls Epstein telling students not to stress over the class because they were all going to get A’s. Cohn is now a professor of medicine at Northwestern University.

“I didn’t learn a whole lot. He didn’t take the classes very seriously,” said Cohn, who said Epstein seemed more concerned with having fun. She described him as someone who seemed like he had just walked off the movie “Saturday Night Fever” and was “a bit smarmy.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-epstein-math-science-students-memories_n_5d28cf17e4b0060b11ebf987

But Barr?

Donald Barr, too, existed in a specific context at Dalton. The headmaster is credited with transforming the school from a progressive bastion into an elite prep school where uniforms were strict, only certain hairstyles were allowed, discipline was emphasized and leadership was conservative.
...
Indeed, Barr was not shy about his conservative beliefs. In a 1968 New York Times article, he sounded off on the youth activism of the time.

“They think they can cheat on tests, steal from one another’s lockers and exploit each other emotionally so long as they have the right opinions about the war or civil rights or something else. That is not morality,” Barr said.

Segal even recalls learning as a young person that Barr had a son in the CIA. Amid the anti-war fervor and the school’s young men fearing that they would be shipped off next, this fact felt like a betrayal.