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In reply to the discussion: Harvard Study: Mainstream Media Acted as Trumps Mouthpiece, Clintons Foe [View all]LenaBaby61
(6,983 posts)60. The Media helped to elect trump.
Sure did, and they LOVE the ratings/advertising GOLD=MONEY he brings in. That's not going to stop with this next set of elections coming up in 2018 either. They'll cover this lying, smelly beast if he passes gas. Yeah, that's big news
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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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