Our "news" media nationally is a sick joke.

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Faux "news" gets slammed big time here, so does CNN.

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_2319_15-news-stories-media-got-completely-wrong/

What's going to happen when the serial con artist/liar Trump gets power?
Easy answer: It'll get worse.

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1. News media in the USA are just propaganda outlets that make lots of money often off of

lies and distortions. It makes Joseph Goebbels of Nazi Germany proud!

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2. That an INTERNATIONAL problem not a national one

News Media is just talking heads for the 1%

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3. And the masses keep lining up to feed at their trough.

The people are at the root of the problem. They cannot tell right from wrong. The majority seems to prefer tabloid news.

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4. some of the stories there seem to be dumb

Do I really care, after all, if a man married a snake?

Others seem to be old. ACORN and O'Keefe? Wasn't that about seven years ago?

Other times seem to be the media doing propaganda. They show a woman saying "don't bring the violence here" and it turns out to have been edited. In that example though, the media seem to be trying to use their power and their platform to reduce violence and destruction. That is a bad thing? Because ...?

Also, is cracked reporting THIS wrong? They say that election 2016 was the second highest turnout, behind only 2012. Except I am seeing that 2008 beat 2012 for total votes.

2008 - 131.5 million votes
2012 - 129.2 million votes
and kinda shocking, to me anyway,
2016 - 135.3 million votes

2004 - 122.3 million
2000 - 105.4 million
1996 - 96.3 million

I know the USA population is growing, but by that much???

2004 was ridiculously high turnout. Apparently lots of people were motivated to re-elect Bush. 2008 was record turnout because Obama had lots of people excited, but 2016 beat that by almost 4 million votes?

And vote totals have increased by over 40% in just 20 years? That cannot all be population increase. Apparently voter turnout is much higher than it was in the 1990s.

And look at the results we get.