"Mainstream Media" is complicit in potential passage of idiotic healthcare repeal legislation

[diva77]

Last edited Tue Jul 25, 2017, 10:12 PM - Edit history (1)

Every news show I've seen lately - PBS News Hour, Charlie Rose, local news --has "guests" on who all criticize repugs for not having passed any legislation within the first 6 mos. of frump's term -- none of them consider the fact that we're better off if they fail to pass any legislation. IDIOTS!!!

The media has to be taken to task for the way they are framing reporting of these murderous, greedy, conniving, lazy, know-nothing IDIOTS!!

[standingtall]

1. Mainstream media is also complicit in Trump Russiagate

they allowed themselves to be manipulated into making a big deal about the phony Clinton email scandal while ignoring the real email scandal that was going on in the Trump campaign.

[Willie Pep]

2. The mainstream media has gone the tabloid route.

Instead of discussing the content of legislation the focus is on whether the failure to pass legislation means the Republicans are impotent or maybe having "issues" like some quarreling celebrity family. It is all about image and no substance.

Political coverage has dumbed down considerably in the last few decades. It feels like watching Extra or TMZ.

[diva77]

3. Exactly!!

It's unbearable to watch...

[JI7]

6. Just like the focus on polls during elections

Instead of bringing one people to discuss issues.

[diva77]

7. Absolutely!

Discussing why the poll numbers are what they are is not a critical analysis of the issue being polled, yet that strategy gets used time and again in news "reporting"

[Willie Pep]

10. It is all about the horse race.

The media actually manipulates coverage to make elections horse races because they want the viewers and the clicks. In 2016 they gave an inordinate amount of coverage to Clinton's e-mail issue because they needed a Democratic "scandal" to offset all of the bad things about Trump so that they could get their horse race. It is likely that this had a big impact on the election as some people bought the "both sides are equally bad" meme.

The coverage of legislation follows the same pattern. The emphasis is not on how many American will be hurt by Trumpcare. Instead the focus is on the Republicans scoring political points by passing legislation no matter how horrible it is. It is sort of like watching ESPN cover a football team that is struggling. "Are the Republicans having locker room troubles?"

[diva77]

11. +1000

[Initech]

4. The republicans *ARE* the mainstream media they claim to despise.

And that's the fucking irony - they love to hate the "mainstream media" because, liberals. But the fact is they OWN the media now. The media is not liberal. That's the secret behind the big lie they spout on a nearly 24/7 basis!

[diva77]

5. True.

How are we ever going to bring back worthy, mainstream media??

[Initech]

14. We have to start small, like they did.

Let's start in the local outlets. And put all the money we make back into expanding our brand. Get our message out to as many people as possible. Then we can worry about national syndication after that.

[L. Coyote]

8. Nothing has passed, so should they take credit for that?

[diva77]

9. well now they can brag that they passed a motion to proceed

[L. Coyote]

12. Which is a huge nothing burger.

[diva77]

13. I hope so. The media keeps goading the repugs --

"news" shows keep echoing the fact that repugs ran on repeal & replace and have done neither -- so now, despite massive protests, they feel they have to have something to show for themselves

I want to believe it's a nothing burger...what will it take to guarantee that?