Didn't see this coming. The media is walking in step with the January 6th Insurrectionists.

[Baitball Blogger]

The way they're handling the news regarding Afghanistan is just incredible to watch. This is our American dysfunction. There is no middle ground. Do we even have a sense of what good vs evil looks like anymore when every organization that should set the example always seems to be on a destroy mission of its own?

I'm so disappointed in this country. Every day it feels like the American experience involves walking in a wasteland of blowhards and/or liars. I KNOW we can do better.

[StarryNite]

1. It's beyond the pale.

And what is really sick is that we know there are Americans who are glad that we lost service members and Afghan citizens just because they see it as a way to further their own agenda.

[Mme. Defarge]

2. My money is on Joe and Nancy.

Stay tuned and hang in.

Confession: I said this more as a pep talk for myself than as a reply to your post.

[PortTack]

3. I will repeat it, but for me, it's more than just a self pep talk

They have history and experience behind them, they are masters at their craft!

[BlueIdaho]

4. The M$M is not your friend.

They are fully paid up card carrying members of the right wing military industrial complex.

[abqtommy]

5. + 100 Yup... I'm surprised the M$M wasn't involved on 1-6-21, beating cops with

their cameras and sound gear.

[jalan48]

8. +1

[mountain grammy]

10. Agree.

[Evolve Dammit]

16. Indeed. It is really controlled and not at all in our interest. I do find a few exceptions.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Middle ground doesn't harvest eye balls and hence profits. . . . nt

[monkeyman1]

7. look back then , they said it was a riot !

well , the editor's changed there tune when they got piled on ! trump haveing fun in the damn tent & damn near piss his britches watching on the tv screen with the rug rat's of his ! riot my ass ! insurrection at it's best ! hoping the committee & doj can straighten this shit out & put whole lot of traitor's in prison !

[Aussie105]

9. American media are the pits.

Following their own mantra of . . . . .whatever that is they are projecting.

Australian media are shamelessly following suit. Bought the whole Afghanistan panic deal about . . . whatever.

Any World Media doing it better? Any signs of intelligence out there?

[AllaN01Bear]

11. i not dissapinted in this country, im dissapointed in most of the ruling class.

the government class and the 5th estate . humbug.

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he needs to do an update .

[overleft]

12. All the MSM is owned by RWers. They want the democrat agenda to fail.

[brooklynite]

13. Sorry, but what does reporting on Afghanistan have to do with Jan 6?

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Maybe I can remember another kind of reporter, especially during times of strife.

Our media is coming across gleefully confrontational. There is no sense of a president that they respect. It's tear down reporting. Just like they did in Clinton's time. And in so doing, they're are playing into the right's hands.

What I would have wanted to see was fair reporting. We had literally tens of thousands Afghan vets who could tell the story in a different way. Where were they in the early days of their reporting? The media heads should save their admonishment for the Republicans in Congress who dragged their feet on expediting Visas, they should have highlighted the fact that the State Department provided Americans in Afghanistan warnings months before the withdrawal began. These Americans chose to put themselves and our soldiers in danger by turning the withdrawal into a high risk operation.

Fair reporting. Provide all the facts at the same time. Is that so hard?

[wnylib]

14. I heard a discussion on NPR this morning

about the delta variant's worldwide effect and how various nations are coping. There was a guest from Asia. Didn't get his name or country of origin because I started listening part way into it. I think he was from China (slight accent) but now lives in the US or Canada. Not sure, but I think he was a journalist. He talked about a recent trip to Asia and about other places he has been.

After talking about China's very strictly enforced covid policies, he said that even other countries in Asia have very high compliance with policies, voluntarily, without China's enforcement tactics. He mentioned the lockdowns in Australia that people grumble about, but comply with. The individualism in Europe means less constrictions and more grumbling, but generally people are complying in most places.

But, he said that the US has the worst record in the world for compliance with health guidelines like masks and vaccines. People in other nations are appalled that Americans have free vaccines and refuse them as well as masks and get away with it, causing massive outbreaks. According to that NPR guest, when Asian nations get news about massive outbreaks in the US and refusal to enforce policies to fight the pandemic, they regard us as backward and a failed state, not worthy of respect any more.

[Baitball Blogger]

15. We would be wiped out as a country if it weren't for the readily available vaccines.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. sounds entirely logical to make that assumption. FreeeeDumb!!

[wnylib]

21. But along with many others my age on DU,

I remember a time when the US was respected and admired in most places, despite our faults. So sad to see how low we have sunk.

It started going downhill with Raygun, deregulations, trickle on economics, and a backlash against civil rights gains. Junior Bush accelerated the downhill slide with unnecessary corporate wars and more deregulation and praise for economic "freedumb" (for the top one percenters). TFG finished the race to the bottom with his grifting and catering to Russian interests.

[Evolve Dammit]

23. I'm old enought to remember JFK's funeral. I was young and it was riveting. Dad was a WW II vet and

both parents lived through the Depression as kids. It saddens me too. We have fallen far and the leaders you mention got us here.

[wnylib]

25. Yes, I remember that funeral.

I also remember that, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world stood with us. There was a report from that time saying that JFK offered to show proof of the Cuban missiles to European leaders before the UN session began and the response was that proof was not necessary at that time because the word of the US president was enough.

[Evolve Dammit]

27. Good recollection. The world was behind us after 9-11 too. W pissed that away.

[jaxexpat]

18. Is it surprising? For several years a large % of Americans are a on foreign payroll.

How connected to money from abroad is your income? It's probable that the highest earners at the highest levels are beholden to non-American interests for the security of their lifestyles. We celebrated internationalism in the Clinton era but our government's regulatory efforts never met the challenge, hiding their ineptitude after so many attempts to understand and explain it using terminology from and for the roaring twenties of the last century. We inherit a generation who've given over to cynicism on a scale unimagined. Is it a wonder to anyone that a media so corrupt thrives on it's own fantasies?

[NewHendoLib]

19. Good vs evil is simply defined by "will it make us money"

[ShazamIam]

20. That high volume 24/7 anti Biden attack revealed how deeply supportive of the billionaire class our

media is. Biden and the Democratic must not be allowed to pass that reconciliation budget. And the Republicans and Trump must be protected. After all the media not just Fox, all of them supported Trump's big lie by allowing the supporters have the microphone anytime they wanted it.

[Irish_Dem]

24. The media has been bought off by someone.

[Mad_Machine76]

26. The headline here is a bit misleading

the media isn't necessarily covering for the 1/6 insurrectionists. They've just found a shiny new toy to talk about endlessly- for at least a while.