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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am totally frustrated with cable news Media.
These Sunday talk shows constantly give the right wing thugs a platform to minimize, deny and all out lie and protect tRump... treatment with" kid gloves"....
When will outrage take over to where the recognition of the Treasonous Acts by this tRump Mafia become the norm?
spanone
(135,823 posts)FarPoint
(12,336 posts)Job security.... Republicans owners of media.
I'm so freaking frustrated....
spanone
(135,823 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Won't watch them.
FarPoint
(12,336 posts)I still had hope that it would at least evolve back to investigative journalism to some extent anyway..
Now..it's all tabloid style sound bytes or they give a platform for crooks to sell their lies...which they do successfully ...to their base.
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)Trump and Russia couldn't have done it without them and a illegitimate minority cannot rule and subvert a majority's rights without a willing state media.
When Facebook, Twitter and Google literally embed paid, full-time employees with a criminally-corrupt organization, when you cannot describe a white nationalist on TV as precisely that.
When you inculcate a petulant, racist base of babies, feed their worst angels and persecute people for political purposes...
That is the unpleasant truth.
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)JHB
(37,158 posts)...or feel enough pressure to fake it.
SamKnause
(13,091 posts)They never seem to be prepared.
They never seem to have their facts assembled to counteract the lies.
They tip toe around and sugar coat everything.
The majority are nothing but over paid actors.
They don't seem to care about the damage they have caused this country.
Chuck Todd stated it is not his job to correct republican lies.
They try to pretend that their are no facts, or truth anymore.
They operate in a world where republicans have their own facts and the dems have their own facts.
There is truth and there are lies.
They don't seem to know the difference.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Such a weasel.
Maraya1969
(22,478 posts)Some shows fact check right away now. Like Joy Reid. She goes after liars like a pit bull. If she can do it why can't Chuck Todd?
90-percent
(6,829 posts)My lifelong hero was spot on, as always. Frank Zappa; The Idol of my youth!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017493203
-Enjoy!
-90% Jimmy
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)We've GOT to start speaking up -- loudly, clearly, and often.
Here's a collection -- very incomplete -- of Twitter handles for starters. But others more relevant ought not be too hard to find.
@HardballChris @HallieJackson @KatyTurNBC @kasie Kasse Hunt @kwelkernbc KristenWelker
@KellyO @maddow @AC360
@MSNBC @NBC @ABC @CBS @CNN @NPR
@mitchellreports @MeetThePress @chucktodd
And, what the hell, the 2 email addresses I have:
ari@msnbc.com
Rachel@msnbc.com
hunter
(38,310 posts)We watch DVDs we find in thrift stores, we rent RedBox DVDs, for exceptional movies we will sometimes buy the DVD, and we have the minimum Netflix subscription, a single "standard definition" stream over an inexpensive medium speed DSL connection.
No cable, no satellite, no broadcast television. We quit television years ago and are never going back.
The only television commercials I'm exposed to are the clever ones people sometimes post here on DU as YouTube videos, or when I'm trapped in a waiting room with people who want the television on. I always ask if I can turn waiting room televisions off unless there is someone obviously watching.
One of the things that irritated me about cable television is that part of the cable fees go to entities I despise (Fox News, etc.) whether I like it or not.
Overall, I think television is useless as a news medium.
Everything that spews from Trump's mouth, or his twitter accounts, is bullshit. Listening to people trying to analyze Trump's words is madness. Trump's words don't matter, only the actions of the his administration do.
Television news fools people into thinking they have their eyes on the ball but mostly it's just advertising crap served up with imitation cheese news.