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onecaliberal

(32,777 posts)
Mon Nov 15, 2021, 07:43 PM Nov 2021

Let me see if I've got this straight.

Reporters have information that is vital to democracy but they withhold it for years instead of you know informing the public so they can enrich themselves?

How are these people any better than trump or the despicable bastards they write about?

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Let me see if I've got this straight. (Original Post) onecaliberal Nov 2021 OP
What would have been done differently? gab13by13 Nov 2021 #1
Don't know, weren't given that chance uponit7771 Nov 2021 #2
What could have been done differently? Is this a serious question? onecaliberal Nov 2021 #5
+1 C Moon Nov 2021 #8
Thank you. Exactly Evolve Dammit Nov 2021 #15
Almost all of the dirt gab13by13 Nov 2021 #3
Woodward yorkster Nov 2021 #4
I agree! Rebl2 Nov 2021 #6
Well, if he put it out in January, '20, Trump wouldn't tell him more stuff for his book. 3Hotdogs Nov 2021 #10
Woodward Knew Who Leaked Valerie Plame's Identity Too DanieRains Nov 2021 #9
Good for you.. yorkster Nov 2021 #11
No shit. FoxNewsSucks Nov 2021 #12
True Pepsidog Nov 2021 #7
American journalism started sinking into the toilet bluecollar2 Nov 2021 #13
Maybe about a dozen. onecaliberal Nov 2021 #14
I'm reduced to PBS bluecollar2 Nov 2021 #16
For the last 4 or 5 months, I have read nearly all of the news I consume. onecaliberal Nov 2021 #17
Completely agree! mountain grammy Nov 2021 #18

onecaliberal

(32,777 posts)
5. What could have been done differently? Is this a serious question?
Mon Nov 15, 2021, 09:00 PM
Nov 2021

Report the story WHEN YOU GET IT. Not 4 year later when it fucks everyone over and you get to enrich yourself while democracy burns to the ground.

gab13by13

(21,256 posts)
3. Almost all of the dirt
Mon Nov 15, 2021, 08:04 PM
Nov 2021

dug up on Trump and his coup plotters has come from reporters, nothing I can think of came from the DOJ. State AG's are doing a decent job, I think, we shall see. Sure hope the feds are doing secret investigations we don't know about.

yorkster

(1,459 posts)
4. Woodward
Mon Nov 15, 2021, 08:25 PM
Nov 2021

is the perhaps the worst case. Trump tells him that the coronavirus is really bad, "it's airborne, Bob" and we hear this months later when Woodward is pushing his damn book. And at that point hundreds of thousands have died. With more to come. Criminal frankly...or should be.

Rebl2

(13,462 posts)
6. I agree!
Mon Nov 15, 2021, 09:13 PM
Nov 2021

Why couldn’t they have told somebody. Oh got it. Got to save it for his book he’s going to publish after dump is out of office.

 

DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
9. Woodward Knew Who Leaked Valerie Plame's Identity Too
Mon Nov 15, 2021, 09:33 PM
Nov 2021

And said nothing before the re-election of Bush.

I watched him apologize on tv a half hour after I left a voice-mail calling him out for not reporting the truth.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,417 posts)
12. No shit.
Mon Nov 15, 2021, 09:49 PM
Nov 2021

He should be charged as an accomplice along with MF45 and anyone else who let covid spread. Hundreds of thousands of people are dead because of those assholes.

bluecollar2

(3,622 posts)
13. American journalism started sinking into the toilet
Mon Nov 15, 2021, 10:00 PM
Nov 2021

Are there any objective reporters or news sources in America today?

onecaliberal

(32,777 posts)
17. For the last 4 or 5 months, I have read nearly all of the news I consume.
Mon Nov 15, 2021, 10:30 PM
Nov 2021

I can’t take the million micro aggressions daily against democracy.

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