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In reply to the discussion: Harvard Study: Mainstream Media Acted as Trumps Mouthpiece, Clintons Foe [View all]flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)45. Took a Harvard study to figure this out eh?
My first thought exactly. The media gave Rump millions in free advertisement. It was the most insane info-tainment ever, and they ate it up.
They still do, for the most part. We can be having a national conversation about healthcare, elections, whatever, and then Twitler tweets a mental dick-pic, and that's every headline for at least a day.
Thank GOD for the NYT, WaPO, Rachael, Lawrence, Joy etc. because otherwise we'd be actually living in a combination of the movie "idiocracy", combined with "the apprentice". Print journalism apparently found their souls in a long-forgotten broom closet, and are being rewarded thusly. Sometimes it takes hitting rock bottom to start the journey of healing.
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Harvard Study: Mainstream Media Acted as Trumps Mouthpiece, Clintons Foe [View all]
CousinIT
Aug 2017
OP
Hah! NPR hasn't been nonpartisan for a few decades. Look at who's funding them.
Eyeball_Kid
Aug 2017
#17
Yep!!! Almost anytime I turned to a media source it was Trump Trump Trump and often in
RKP5637
Aug 2017
#39
Good example: Trump menacing Hillary on stage should have been immediately stopped by MSM Moderators
stuffmatters
Aug 2017
#92
Also, give a listen to Thom Hartmann, daily online at WCPT in Chicago 12-3 EST. Can't
Doitnow
Aug 2017
#100
I just changed the channel at the auto dealership to catch up on the news
Rhiannon12866
Aug 2017
#71
... and to a person they will react as if they were called pedophiles if this is brought up!!
uponit7771
Aug 2017
#4
He was plucked from obscurity to cohost "Live at Five" on local NYC tv
SleeplessinSoCal
Aug 2017
#86
Both the Washington Post and NYT published excerpts from the Breitbart sponsored "Clinton Cash"...
deurbano
Aug 2017
#29
That Mercer funded book was debunked before it was published. But NYT had their "exclusive"
emulatorloo
Aug 2017
#33
I saw him plenty, and he was talking about the issues (all too often sounding exactly the same)
Skittles
Aug 2017
#107
Behind every facade there are the economic interests that shape the ideology
bucolic_frolic
Aug 2017
#40
+1 The media was a conned by Drumph as much of Murica, they should be better than that
flibbitygiblets
Aug 2017
#49
This wasn't about Hillary or Trump, anymore than pimping Palin in 2008 was about Palin
Snake Plissken
Aug 2017
#44
ok, why would they be reflecting on this? If this becomes something that damages their image, sure.
JCanete
Aug 2017
#82
Agreed to No Shit...Bring back the Fairness Doctrine with teeth - jail terms and fines.
c-rational
Aug 2017
#47
Exactly. The entertainment value of his outrageous rantings brought in ratings.
Rhiannon12866
Aug 2017
#68
Yes, it's the great irony that Republicans get to pretend that the media has a liberal bias and that
JCanete
Aug 2017
#81
My problem with this conclusion is that Trump's Immigration policies were a scandal.
Nitram
Aug 2017
#87
MSM sabotaged Hillary, esp cringeworthy: Kristin Welker Andrea Mitchell alway closed with email jab
stuffmatters
Aug 2017
#90
It's up to DNC to organize and relentlessly contact the MSM nationally & in every media market
stuffmatters
Aug 2017
#104
Glaring punchline to this story is "Dems let it happen." Time for us to fight back.
stuffmatters
Aug 2017
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