i don't know, and i don't trust the media, but i'm start to think their coverage of donnie

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is going to *very* different after he's branded a *loser*.

i think there are going to be some pissed off republican senators after donnie causes them to lose the senate. obviously the ones who lose re-election will be pissed, but the ones who remain will be pissed at becoming a minority party.

and the "access" the media overvalues so much and that donnie uses to control the media won't mean much anymore. they'll be angling for access to biden/harris instead.


i assume they'll still be biased in favor of the right wing as they always are, but i do think there will be quite a bit of criticism over where he went wrong and how badly he campaigned and so on.

plus i think they might finally admit he's no great political genius, he's just plain crazy.

[AleksS]

1. It might be interesting once they are no longer

Selling their soul for the mythical dream of “access.”

We’ll see what happens.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. As Keith Olbermann said, if the president held a live press conference where

it was known he was going to tell all Americans to kill themselves, would a responsible media carry it?

What he is going to do is no different, he is going to LIE and say he has won and any counting of votes is illegal, which it isnt.

DO NOT CARRY the puke fascist treason that will projectile vomit from his disgusting face!

[ZZenith]

3. One thing they'll most certainly never do

is apologize for the significant role they played in precipitating the disaster in the first place.

Yes, let’s just pretend that a known morally defective sociopath might be good for the nation’s highest office.

Fuckers.

"It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS," Les Moonves 2/29/2016

[gratuitous]

13. Got that right

Just like the Dubya years, the media will collectively shrug that nobody knows how that guy got elected, it's just one of those things that happened, and we were totally hard on Trump as evidenced by this 23 second spot where we cast a shadow of a doubt on whether Trump was going to deliver in two weeks on his long-awaited health care legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act.

[ZZenith]

19. "Democrats Struggle To Justify Their Stance Against Caging Babies"

“Details at 11.”

[SheltieLover]

4. And those senators

Will have to look at themselves everyday in the mirror.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Trump has a choice after he loses.

He can keep doing the same shitty things all the way to January or he can wise up and do a few good things for the American people like COVID relief. Yeah, I don't think he will either.

[TwilightZone]

9. Three months of pouting.

That's what I predict.

[C_U_L8R]

12. And taxpayer-funded golf.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

6. Biden needs to reinstate the fairness act

That will make the rightwing bias forced to be fair. Fox if it continues being right wing only and oann will be shut down if they don't play fair and let Dems on the air too. Fox news needs to be shut down and that abomination murdoch deported.

[TwilightZone]

10. The Fairness Act only applied to networks.

Fox News and OAN wouldn't have been in their jurisdiction.

Murdoch can't be deported - he's been a naturalized citizen since 1985. That train long left the station.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

14. We'll make the fairness doctrine apply

To all things broadcasting and all radio stations,period.

[uponit7771]

17. +1, either that or a fact check consortium

[Codeine]

11. The Fairness Doctrine

only applies to the public airwaves. Fox News is cable, and thus cannot be made to adhere to such a rule.

[DFW]

7. My wish secnario

The media--even Fox Noise--start calling Biden "President-Elect Biden" before Trump concedes, and Trump goes berserk over it.

[TwilightZone]

8. It's already changed. It changed quite a while ago.

Chris Wallace at Fox News, of all places, has been taking shots at Trump for months. Those shots ramped up after the debate debacle.

Lots of places do real-time fact-checking of Trump or follow up shortly after he makes an appearance or speech. The number of outlets doing so has increased greatly during his term. So much of what he said in 2016 went unchallenged. Now, he's barely said something and it's being challenged. The reported claim that he was going to declare early victory was savaged so quickly that he had to pretend he never said it.

"he's no great political genius"

No, but he's a pretty good judge of (poor) character, particularly in regard to *his* people, and an excellent manipulator of, as he calls them, the poorly educated. That was enough in 2016. It won't be near enough in 2020.

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20. They have improved somewhat

But they still air him as if he deserves respect and as if his statements should be presumed true unless fact-checked otherwise. They shouldn't give time to his lies, they shouldn't give time to his bigotry, they shouldn't give time to his insanity.

[TwilightZone]

21. Agreed.

Everyone, including the media, should assume everything he says is false until proven otherwise. It saves time.

[lame54]

15. They'll still show Trump daily...

Whether it's investigations or him just being clownish and rude to Biden he'll find his way onto the tube

[uponit7771]

16. K&R, Trump will command a base 5% of the republican vote per county. kGOP **CAN NOT** abandon him so

... media will not abandon him either but for most round earthers Trump will be a joke.

For the Flat Earthers Trump be king maker in the kGOP and that will spell their doom.

They made the Trump bed and now they're going to lay in it ... for generations

[stillcool]

18. The cable news shows have proven

time and time again what they're all about. If nothing changes, nothing changes. The same 1%'ers still own the same influence machines. Busting up media conglomerates would be a good start. There is so much to bust up.