Why in hell is the media still making excuses for Trump? Why do so many give him

the numerous investigations, they can say that is evidence he has done nothing wrong and they are just being balanced in their coverage.

saved me from writing my spiel.

I dare say one can be very well informed by just getting their news from DU.

I don't waste my time being aggravated by the right wing MSM.

I only watch Nicolle Wallace on TV, and listen to Zerlina Maxwell, Stephanie Miller, and Thom Hartmann.

OP doesn’t hate the media, and I seriously doubt they hate the trained competent reporters who bust their asses fact checking and interviewing and researching.

Their quarrel is with editorial stances from the higher ups afaik.

He's spending a lot of time with quacks. Read his OP.

Lots of folks on DU posting wild ‘theories’ and fact free speculation. Which is fine, because it is a discussion site, not a news organization.

It is not a not a vetted news source.

If you choose to get your ‘news’ from DU or Facebook or TikTok, that’s certainly your choice. Just like you can choose to go to a quack doctor or a unqualified blogger when you get sick.

You might benefit from reading the LBN SOP. When I was talking about getting my news from DU, I meant LBN and not GD, the Lounge, Weird News or Pets.

GD is general discussion about the news and other things.

Bless your heart!

And it'd be more productive for you to get your news from LBN like several of us already do. That's just my opinion

GD is for general discussion of the news and many other subjects, Weird News covers the exploits of Florida Man and Creative Speculation is for discussion of the Kennedy assassination, aliens, and conspiracy theories .

I can carry hatred of the media for 100.

They earned it.

Oh yeah, the media.

One is not sitting watching talking heads babbling about stuff in a way that pisses the viewer off. Here, one can go right to what's important.

As much as you try to deflect with the BS "selective" claim, the media that you are painting with a broad brush - along with the people who use it - is where the info is coming from. You can claim "being selective" as much as you want, but you certainly aren't slective when you slur the people who create content and post it here. That 'important stuff" you go to, comes from THE MEDIA. Your constant bashing of media as some kind of monolith here without any supportive evidence has zero credibility.

If you would learn about the history of this country, the media was considered an important part of our democracy by the Founding Fathers. That now includes bradcast media, some of which is awful, but a lot of which has been essential in combatting the fascists who are trying to overturn democracy. I could post many, many examples but you would ignore them as much as you ignore the good work being done by many in the media with your blanket attacks and unsupported claims.

If any of the segments I listen to start airing clips of traitor, or his past or current henchmen, I turn it off.

I want to see news that indicates what elected Dems in Congress are planning, or how the states with seditious officials trying to overthrow their elections are going to deal with the rebels. I'll watch long lines of people in Georgia waiting to vote. Or Mauna Loa erupt, although I'm wondering if someone tossed a few r's in and stirred it up.

The only clips I want to see of traitor or his gang are when they get handed into the back seat of a cop car.

Reporters still turning in solid work and have exposed Trump. But higher ups are still scared of being called the ‘liberal media.’

JMHO of course.

Money is always the reason for the M$M.

fair and ballanced . gone when the fairness doctrine was remvoed. now we got fox and fox 2.0 so , hem.

The Fairness Doctrine only applied to regular broadcast stations--the stations that you can pick up with a simple antenna.

Fox is cable. It can spew lies and hate all day, and little can stop them from doing it. Save for cutting cable. That's the only way you can hurt them. That both kills their advertisers' access to your eyeballs, and their cut of your cable bill.

Every time you pay for cable, you pay for Fox to be on the air.

They question Biden’s ability to lead based solely in his age. The Orange Anus spews lie after lie and … crickets.

This is a discussion board and some do like to talk about him. Others who aren't can just skip over the threads.

They've been lapdogs for corporate/big money interests for a very long time now.

And never forget the cable news talking heads make $$$$$. Supporting the r thugs, or excusing their fascist behavior, is in their personal best interests.

Trump is a ratings machine. With privatized media, ratings and money are more important than truth and democracy. It’s their raison d’etre.