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Coverage of the primaries (Original Post)
SHRED
Jan 2016
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Ned_Devine
(3,146 posts)1. We (USA) love sensationalism and asshole jerky men.
That's the "A block" section in the newscast. The stories of underdogs, redemption and overall feel good stories come at the end of the news cast while the credits are rolling.
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)7. Kand R!
Kaboom! CORPORATIST MSM is the whole story!
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)2. If America had a media at all, worthy of the name, the same would be true
The media wouldn't need to be "Liberal", it would just need to be doing it's fucking job.,
in an evenhanded and professional kind of way.
Hekate
(90,662 posts)4. If..., then the media would also stop calling Trump's attacks on the Clintons a "feud"....
....between Trump and the Clintons. It isn't. They pretty much ignore his provocations.
When Hillary laughs that her New Year's resolution is to let Trump inhabit his own "alternate reality," that somehow doesn't really say "feud" -- it says she's the adult and he's the poo-flinging ape.
elleng
(130,880 posts)5. and Martin O'Malley would get
SOME coverage, I suppose.
Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)6. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, SHRED.