Joy Reid hands the New Yorker a little dose of reality.

[Miles Archer]

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@NewYorker

Take a step back and remember how politically explosive it would have been, a year ago, to know that the Trump campaign was colluding with WikiLeaks.

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More Joy Reid Retweeted The New Yorker
This Is beyond absurd. Russia-Wikileaks-Trump collusion has been my 10am A and or B block on #AMJoy since at least last July. This story was fully knowable to all who could see past Her Emails.

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[Gabi Hayes]

1. Article with plenty of examples of how msm let trump lie his ass off

https://www.npr.org/2016/11/08/501033242/weary-press-corps-can-celebrate-election-s-end-then-survey-wreckage

[Roland99]

2. +1

[Orrex]

12. NPR is as serious an offender as any other media outlet

Desperate to avoid the dreaded "Liberal" label, and wholly beholden to their corporate benefactors, NPR takes care not to bite the hand that feeds it by looking too closely at Republican bullshit.

Even the ordinarily excellent On the Media has had a distressingly soft touch about the Trump administration.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. Couldnht agree more, but the nyt and wapo were just as egregious in their coverage

I just found some real nuggets in there

I quit listening to them, with exceptions like fresh air and radio lab, a long time ago

That horrid show Marketplace, is a particularly good example of how far they skew to the right

Thx for bringing that up....was in a hurry

[Orrex]

14. Fresh Air is gold, and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise!

This American Life and Reveal are also terrific.

You're right about Marketplace, and I'd add that The 1A is also pretty bad. Their flagship news programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered are where I see the worst examples of coddling the GOP.

Also correct about The NYT and WAPO. Aside from a few outliers and a few bright spots, the media as a whole is complicit, to be sure.

[Hestia]

17. Science Friday's with Ira Flatow - I've learned so much from that show

[Gabi Hayes]

22. Liked him since Newtons Apple

How long ago was that?

The two “flagship” shows are
are sad, empty husks of what they once were. Mara ffffing Liasson? Cokie Roberts?

[pangaia]

35. I always thought his name was Ira Plato. :))))

Great hour...

I think he just left that show, no?

[pangaia]

25. 1A sucks.

Shitty name.
Shitty dude with an obnoxious attitude. Repeats every question so he can stay relevant, has no interst in anything, just, "we're up against a break."

Luckily I'll never here that phrase again as I just can't stand to listen to him any more.

[sharedvalues]

20. NPR is bad, worse than most others. They are neutered by the right wing press.

Yes, NPR gets a lot of corporate money.
Here's a good summary of why NPR bends over backwards to be anti-left:

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[DesertRat]

3. Joy Reid is a treasure

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

31. Joy is a joy to watch!!

[LisaM]

4. Does she mean July 2016?

(I am assuming she does, but it doesn't say that).

[swag]

11. Good question.

To me, "last July" is July, 2017. I wonder if she clarified on Twitter.

[radical noodle]

27. I've watched her from the beginning

and she was talking about Russia last summer 2016 with Malcolm Nance. His book about it was already out.

[LisaM]

37. That's what I figured.

She should update her Tweet.

[gibraltar72]

5. Yes if

only someone had tried to tell media. What effin hypocrisy!

[KPN]

6. Joy is right on. At the same time,

I fear the New Yorker opinion piece has some merit -- this Russia thing seems to be getting "normalized" ... like it's no big deal in this day and age for any politic organization to have routine contacts spanning the globe (even though they are frankly treasonous in this case).

Personally, I am deeply concerned that too many Americans are falling prey to this "normalization" and hope that Mueller springs some major indictments including collusion and vote count hacks SOON ... so that the outcome to the Trumpsters is not minimized in any fucking way!

[Mr. Ected]

7. Mueller won't be swayed by the general public's misunderstanding of the law

There will be a hundred million Americans learning a whole lot about law and jurisprudence in the coming months.

[KPN]

9. Mueller won't, no, but I don't have complete confidence in the American public on this

nor the MSM given it's contributions to "normalization" already.

[pangaia]

26. Nor the courts.

[KPN]

36. No kidding.

[radical noodle]

28. I don't think money laundering

would be considered the new normal by most and I have a feeling that could be one of the charges. Of course, treason would be even better for Flynn who tried to undermine US policy by working for Erdogan.

[KPN]

39. Hope you're right about that.

[radical noodle]

40. I hope so too

There will always be some who cling to trump no matter what. There were some still supporting Nixon after he resigned.

[KPN]

41. Yup. One of my uncles was a Nixon diehard

even after, forever after.

[radical noodle]

42. Nixon may have been a crook

but he wasn't stupid like Trump.

[Mountain Mule]

8. There are none so blind...

The members of cult 45 are dedicated to sleepwalking thru their lives. They refuse to look at reality. They knew the story a year ago and they know it now and they just don't care. The New Yorker shouldn't give them a pass.

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. And they never learn

After the illegal and pointless Iraq invasion, they were somewhat contrite. That only cost America thousands of lives and billions of dollars and blowback in the form of ISIS. Gee I wonder what their propping up Trump and demonizing Hillary to even out the horse race will cost us in the end?

[MFM008]

16. They set EVERYTHING

Aside to "WIN".

[questionseverything]

18. so whr was the fbi before the election?

[sharedvalues]

19. The New Yorker has been nearly the BEST publication on the current political disaster

I like Joy.

But the New Yorker has been absolutely great since about October 2016. And the New Yorker didn't go wild on the Emails. (The NYTimes did).

Listen to this podcast with the New Yorker editor:
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/e/51526503

Best line by Remnick, New Yorker editor:
"[This president with the GOP and with his administration] is a national emergency."

[Gabi Hayes]

23. Agreed. I get it in the mail weekly; thank you, kind sis

Always something of value, especially on the Russia front

Pieces that die there, unfortunately

[progressoid]

24. They have been great.

Unfortunately, they only reach a million or so of us. And we're those over educated, latte sipping, Prious driving liberals.

We need to get the word out to the middle of road types.

[radical noodle]

29. I agree

I get the New Yorker and it's been terrific. Also David Corn in Mother Jones. Even The Atlantic has had a few good pieces.

[klook]

32. Yes. Thank you.

And they never took part in pandering to Trump for page views & clicks.

[pbmus]

21. Every media outlet is responsible for the current POS

In the White House...

Look up Chris Matthews hour long interviews with the Biggest Con...he and MSNBC was selling this POS SINCE THE FOREVER.

http://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/20-years-of-trump-trump-on-running-for-office-982673475725

[radical noodle]

30. Not anymore... n/t

[Skittles]

33. DAMN STRAIGHT

yes indeed

[UCmeNdc]

34. K&R

[lagomorph777]

38. Thank you Joy! C'mon Turd publicly colluded with Wikileaks at least 147 times ON TV!

How disingenuous to pretend it's all a big surprise now.

What's new is the back-door communication, and the explicit awareness that the Turd campaign knew Wikileaks was a Russian cutout.

[ucrdem]

43. The New Yorker has sucked for decades.

David Remmick turned an occasionally boring cultural icon into a completely boring old-news-a-teria, with occasional gems of course. JMHO.

[Demonaut]

44. "boil the frog" has been successful if Joey is posting about it