Useless, useless media.

[SamKnause]

Trump has mentioned mental illness 20 or 30 times as the cause of mass shootings.

Not one, not one 'journalist' mentioned he signed the law that makes it easier

for mentally ill people and fugitives to get guns.

NOT ONE !!!

Spineless useless cowards.

Now he just referred to crazy people having guns.

[malaise]

1. +1,000

or questioned the Con's mental state.

[dalton99a]

2. "Members of the Press, What The Fuck?"

[uponit7771]

3. K&R, they are less knowledgeable than you are

[tblue37]

4. He signs what he is good to sign, and he reverses every Obama achievement he can. It's

just automatic. He probably doesn't even know what he's signing half the time.

[SamKnause]

5. Journalist should know what he signed.

I thought that was the job they were paid to do.

I am sick of their ineptness.

[tblue37]

7. True. nt

[mountain grammy]

23. you and me both..

the American news media has failed us and themselves.

[roody]

44. They know.

[Maven]

6. The media has been conditioned over decades to:

a) Give Rs the benefit of the doubt even when doing so requires suspending absurd levels of disbelief

b) Never call Rs on their hypocrisy to their face

c) Cast doubt and uncertainty on the motives of Ds whenever possible

[SamKnause]

9. ...

d) I am fucking sick of it.

This country is being eaten from within and the 'journalist' are aiding and abetting

this countries demise.

P.S. Your post is spot on.

[Maven]

10. Me too.

I have lots of issues with Twitter as a platform, but it has been beneficial is as a direct channel to pundits and journalists who traffic in false equivalencies and double-standards for Rs and Ds. They are finally getting pushback from our side after years of kowtowing to conservatives.

Our side needs to start calling them out on the air, too -- the same way that Rs spread their bogus "liberal media" charge over the years so that pundits and journalists would overcompensate in Rs' favor to avoid appearing biased against conservatives.

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. Because most of them are wealthy Rs, or owned by them

[Brainfodder]

22. THIS!

Rupert and Sheldon are going to have to die of old age before much changes on that front? Those 2 evil shits won't stop with their BS otherwise, or they would have by now.

The Koch brothers, ditto.

Mitch.

Who else?

[CrispyQ]

24. The media is only as liberal as the conservative corporations that own it.

A bumper sticker I saw once.

on edit: The media will make money even if we go fascist. In fact, somewhere there is a corporate exec salivating over the ratings of one faction of Americans killing off the factions they disagree with. First they came for the Muslims, and then the brown people, and then the journalists, and then the libs. I don't see one thing on that 14 signs of fascism that I don't also see in this country.

14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism

[Brainfodder]

26. The media is soft because if they weren't, most would run from them?

Every question asked, the answer is already known or hear comes the dodge!?!

Now they just battle for ratings and they are dying for their ridiculous gotcha questions to actually work, they have stomped actual journalism flat?

I'm wasting no time with TV news any more, and feeling better off!

[smirkymonkey]

8. You know what else?

Mentally ill people shouldn't be able to become president.

Article 25 of the US Constitution. Remove him.

[ancianita]

11. MSNBC reported the bill signing. I watched. A stand alone bill, up-or-down vote that got through.

[SamKnause]

13. I was referring to the journalists doing the helicopter interviews.

That is when the really tough questions need to be asked.

They show those clips on all the news channels.

MSNBC clips don't get that kind of coverage.

Trump needs to be bashed every time he is in front of a live mic.

His lies are ripping this country apart.

[SunSeeker]

12. Access matters more to White House reporters than getting the truth out.

They know if they make the President look bad, they might be denied what little access they have already been reduced to.

[SamKnause]

15. I refuse to accept that as an excuse.

Call a press conference and explain what is going on.

Explain that you aren't being permitted to report the facts.

Explain how dangerous this is.

Explain what a threat this is to the welfare of this country.

Stand up, do something.

Follow your conscience, not your check book.

I have been put in that situation.

I was 39.

I was single.

I quit.

[Ligyron]

20. Yes, but you seek the truth and feel the need to reveal this hypocrisy.

You know, for the good of the country and so you're no doubt patriotic too. They're not.

Besides, corporate would probably never allow it. Not even MSNBC.

[SunSeeker]

34. Yes, but you're a patriot, most White House correspondents obviously aren't. nt

[spanone]

14. K&R...

[NRaleighLiberal]

16. Exactly. For them it is about money, not our well being

[calimary]

18. I'm sorry, but to me, anybody who feels that strongly that they need lots of guns

including the most hideous mass-murder machines, to me they ARE crazy people.

Did anybody see that Chris Cuomo town hall on guns on CNN the other night? One of the people there in the audience was a middle aged white woman who was described as owning an AR-15 assault rifle. I waited in vain for either the “experts” on stage or Chris Cuomo himself to stop and ask her - “why do you think you need to own an AR-15? Do you live in a Syrian ghetto or something, ma’am?” But no. I certainly would have asked that. Another white American paranoiac?

[gordianot]

21. It is not smart to advertise what fire arms you have.

It is even more stupid to think they will keep you safe.

[Martin Eden]

19. "Trump has mentioned mental illness 20 or 30 times as the cause of mass shootings."

Besides pointing out that Trump made it easier for the mentally ill to acquire deadly weapons, the Mainstream media should also have clarified that Trump's own mental illness has influenced some of the shooters.

[jayschool2013]

32. Sorry for all the deleted posts

I need to grow a thicker skin.

I know you didn't intend to call me a "spineless, useless coward." Right?

(Oh, and you need a comma between adjectives of equal rank describing the same noun. Stupid journalism school taught me that 38 years ago.)

[SamKnause]

36. Did you interview Trump today ???

If you did, yes I was referring to you.

If you didn't, no I wasn't referring to you.

Thanks for the punctuation lesson.

I could use a refresher course.

[jayschool2013]

33. A "spineless, useless coward" was murdered this week

An American in the Philippines.

[mountain grammy]

38. There are still journalists in this world

endangering and sometimes losing their lives to tell the truth, and that’s recognized here. What’s so damned depressing is arguable the “most free” media in the world, lacks the courage to confront the raging hypocrisy of American politics.

[jayschool2013]

39. We do not have the freest "media"

The United States ranks 48th in the world, according to Reporters Without Borders.

[mountain grammy]

40. Thanks.. I knew that but didn't understand it was that bad

But I should. We’ve been seeing the daily attacks..and I think worse days are ahead, but I think the national network news that average Americans depend on have failed us miserably. It’s corporate after all.

[jayschool2013]

42. True that

TV is show business, mostly.

Not sure where you are, but a few of my former CU Boulder students work at newspapers in the mountains, particularly at the Summit Daily.

[mountain grammy]

43. I'm I Grand County

Small towns are where good journalism can really make a difference..it’s been hit or miss in my 30 years here. Several years ago I begged the then editor of our Skyhi news to please stop publishing weekly letters from climate change deniers, citing several major newspapers who had done that. Much to my surprise he agreed and that nonsense ceased..

[Cetacea]

46. Sadly, most community news chains have been bought up by the right

along with talk radio and TV stations

[Joe941]

35. He is mentally ill.

[stopbush]

37. Plenty of people on MSNBC have been pointing out this very thing.

You’re not watching the right channels.

[UniteFightBack]

41. I've heard this brought up numerous times. nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

45. Don't worry. Once he puts them all on "Re-education camps" they'll

sure as shit get to the bottom if this.

[MasonDreams]

47. This is still just the tip of the iceberg.

There are NO exit polls that hold election results to task. Bribes are legalized. Never asked questions don't need to be answered. I have lowered my expectations lower than I could have imagined 5yrs back. Massive change is coming and it will be painful. All we really need is free and fair elections including primaries, for '20 & '22. Money turns everything to shit. Peacefully changing needs an informed and educated electorate, and the airwaves belong to the people. ☮️ Enough for a 300 billion dollar/year defense budget, leaves us 500 billion to play with !! Of course Medicare for all is alot cheaper than what we got !! It seems so easy, but the forces against, pay the media and the govt