Exactly who the f*ck is "THE MEDIA" anyway?

[ghostsinthemachine]

I see left, right, center, up down, profit, non profit media decry "the media". Print media, television, radio etc decry the media. People tell me "it's the media's fault" when talking about almost any subject, sports to politics". Only the most extreme use the pejorative "liberal" anymore. The right has especially made the media a dirty word, so much the I watched FOX for an hour decry the media. The media this, the media that. (Yet they say they are the most watched news outlet. That kind of makes them the media doesn't it?). My community radio station blamed the media (on a news program) for not doing enough to report on Trump's something or other.

Trump is all over the media bemoaning the media, on the media. The media created him and he uses it at his beck and call. Alternet.org covers him as does Breitbart.

So who is this boogieman, this "media" to you?

[still_one]

4. Exactly how is Hillary responsible for that?

and by the way, the deregulation bullshit started with Jimmy Carter with airline deregulation, with the hard core foundation set by RayGun. The final nail was pounded in by Bill Clinton

[tonyt53]

5. Uh, you are thanking the wrong people. You should thank Ronald Reagan.

Reagan gave you the Fairness Doctrine that allowed people/companies to own newspapers, radio, and TV markets in the same area.

[still_one]

10. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[beachbumbob]

2. The media is who is ever reporting stuff you don't like

And fringe sites are popular for the left and the right

[ghostsinthemachine]

6. Fringe sites?

Mother Jones? Democracy now? Breitbart? Redstate? Democratic underground?

[ronnie624]

11. It's far more complex than that.

A media establishment serves a number if purposes, both for society in general and for the establishment's owners.

You'll never understand the issue through pat, simplistic answers, like the one in your post.

[3catwoman3]

3. If Trump is as unhappy with "the media" as he...

...is currently claiming to be, they should do him a favor and stop covering him at all. That would really piss him off.

And it would make me very happy.

[Old Vet]

7. The media(all of them) are the ones who couldnt get enough of trump 24-7

For the first six months he got air time on tv like it was free, Although its a little bit more stabilized now. Whats frustrating is that the top 3 or 4 24-7 news outlets have to keep on talking about something. The more outrageous the better, They need some type of breaking news about the election everyday. For instance this morning was the Clinton e-mails again, On all three networks(cnn,fox,msnbc) But the kicker was the e-mails they were discussing were already released days ago. And whats crazy is that all the polls reflect what news outlet you watch, Where is one to go to get a middle of the road opinion of this election, Really?

[Avalux]

8. Donald is an addict and the media is his dealer. He needs them yet hates them.

Donald is who he is because of the attention he gets; he would literally self-destruct without it. He is addicted to seeing his name in print and hearing it on TV whether that attention is positive or negative. If it's negative, that's just another opportunity for Donald to increase the amount of attention he receives. It's very very personal for him.

For me, the media is useful in reporting information (of course, that information is selective, there's much that isn't reported at all). Sometimes that information needs to be researched independently and often it's bullshit with an occasional gold nugget. I recommend limited exposure to cable news channels.

[still_one]

9. The negative connotation of the media today, refers to the Corporate Media

Chuck Todd summarized exactly what the Media has become, when he said:

It wasn't the "Media's responsibility to correct falsehoods". More than anything that encapsulated what the media has become today.

Paddy Chayefsky saw this coming when he wrote Network. Facts do not mean anything, it is all about ratings, and doing whatever they could to boost those ratings.

This "media" was a willing accomplice with the bush administration when we invaded Iraq based on a lie. Judy Miller was not the only willing partner, it permeated most of the fourth estate. There were only a few outlets that reported that this WMD assertion was not credible.

Perhaps the most telling was during the Jon Stewart interview when Stewart describes that weapons expert David Albright tried to alert her to the fact that the WMD story was fishy, Miller responded that "the story got cut for space"

It is this dishonesty that has given the negative connotation to this entity the MSM. The Iraq WMDs are not the only example either, there are many

[KWR65]

12. This just means shoot the messenger.

Conservatives wants to shoot the person that reports bad news. If the press is reporting on Hillary with bad news they are all for that, but against their sacred members they want no bad news.