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oldtime dfl_er

(6,931 posts)
Sat Dec 3, 2016, 01:43 PM Dec 2016

What shall we call the media now?

"Our side" is usually slow to slap nicknames on things. The media has been (falsely) portrayed as the "liberal media" for many many years now -- probably since Watergate -- where it is, by and large, no such thing. Unfortunately, in my opinion Democrats and progressives are a little too wise to lump all media together and call it by a bad name. But it's time to change that, our lives depend on it. Can we find a clever moniker that will stick?

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What shall we call the media now? (Original Post) oldtime dfl_er Dec 2016 OP
Pravda DoBotherMe Dec 2016 #1
Works for me LenaBaby61 Dec 2016 #3
do you know what Pravda bdamomma Dec 2016 #12
Facilitators uppityperson Dec 2016 #2
Mouthpiece, outlet, spigot, discharge, etc. HassleCat Dec 2016 #4
Ray McGovern shadowmayor Dec 2016 #5
Love that! oldtime dfl_er Dec 2016 #7
Like this one, Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #6
chattering heads. OregonBlue Dec 2016 #8
Trump's propaganda arm. .99center Dec 2016 #9
Unctuous GeorgeGist Dec 2016 #10
The Approved News of the Government Channel - TANG kydo Dec 2016 #11

LenaBaby61

(6,979 posts)
3. Works for me
Sat Dec 3, 2016, 02:00 PM
Dec 2016

As Russia HAS been seemingly "asked" to flex it's muscle into our elections (Per tRump asking them to find Hillary's emails), and has gained the heart and mind (What little mind/heart he HAS) of the President of the United States

bdamomma

(63,931 posts)
12. do you know what Pravda
Sat Dec 3, 2016, 05:04 PM
Dec 2016

means TRUTH

It takes one BS artist to know another, oops Putin is an Ex KGB agent, tRump is an idiot.

shadowmayor

(1,325 posts)
5. Ray McGovern
Sat Dec 3, 2016, 02:12 PM
Dec 2016

Former CIA and permanent thorn in the side of Rumsfeld uses the term Fawning Corporate Media. I think it's apt.

oldtime dfl_er

(6,931 posts)
7. Love that!
Sat Dec 3, 2016, 02:15 PM
Dec 2016

Maybe to make it pithy and easy to remember we could pare it down to Corporate Media. Then use that phrase ALL THE TIME until it sticks.

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