It's distressing to see Chairman Schiff and the House Managers

[maxrandb]

Do the fucking job that our media should have been doing for the past 4 years.

That...in a nutshell...is where we are

[Evolve Dammit]

1. Excellent point. So true.

[sandensea]

2. When it comes to Repubs, the MSM can get really lazy

That's how Wall Street likes it.

[paulkienitz]

3. Our media has decayed into reporting what politicians and celebrities assert as facts,

rather than digging up facts themselves. A few organizations still hire real reporters but most find them redundant.

[democrank]

4. That's a giant slab of truth right there.

Thanks~

[ffr]

5. Isn't it!!!

Fucking networks play tRump spouting his talking points for 50 minutes and then give Americans fighting for the survival of our republic 50 seconds, then back to rePuticans for the remaining 10 minutes.

Thanks for calling them out!

[LiberalFighter]

6. Especially with the media giving trump all that free media during 2016.

[RVN VET71]

31. Yep, It was the media, Jim Comey, and Vladimir Putin

who put Trump on the throne.

The media was looking for ratings and, thereby, sold its soul.

Comey wanted to convince the "Never Hillary" members of the FBI that he was one of them.

And Vladimir Putin knew that Hillary Clinton would view him (and properly so) as an adversary of the United States and all free people in the world, and act accordingly.

[Lonestarblue]

7. And far too many opinion writers are just right-wing hacks with no credentials.

I understand the need to present alternative viewpoints based on legitimate knowledge. I don’t understand the need to give credence to complete lies simply to show some pretend even handedness.

[flamingdem]

8. Yes! The honesty is refreshing

Why did we have to wait this long?

[CloudWatcher]

9. Rachel Maddow

Agreed .. but with some exceptions. Notably Rachel Maddow has been on this almost every day.

It's best to remember that our "news media" is but entertainment.

[Rebl2]

14. For instance

The Today show, Good Morning America.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

17. AND the recently departed Jim Lehrer.

There is an editorial cartoon floating around. It shows Jim as the journalist he was in the first frame, captioned with "News." In the second, it shows a shouting hack, with the caption, "Noise."

Nailed it.

[CloudWatcher]

18. Jim Lehrer .. News / Noise

Found it ... thanks

[liberalla]

10. They've been outstanding. I'm so impressed and grateful for their excellent work.

[maxsolomon]

11. I know 90% plus of what the Impeachment Managers are saying already.

I learned it from the Media - Rachel, the NYT...

Who are you specifically blaming?

[NewJeffCT]

23. The NYT

made the Hillary email scandal and the Clinton Foundation scandal into mountains when they were really non stories.

While the Trump scandals made the news, they had nowhere near the prominence because there were so many of them.

[maxsolomon]

32. "Flood the zone with shit" - S. Bannon

During the 2016 campaign, the GOP succeeded at "working the Refs". Whine and flop and wheedle, and eventually the calls go your way.

Now, they foul so much the Refs can't call it all.

[Roy Rolling]

12. Cheap Shot

“The Media” should have been doing more?

That’s straight out of the GOP/Russian propaganda playbook.

There are plenty of terrible media outlets like Fox News. Their desperate hope is that all media outlets will be tarred and feathered along with them. That’s how they hide the fact they aren’t news but political propaganda.

I inderstand your point, but you gotta be more specific pointing out the bad players from the good ones. The “media” is not to blame. Commercial, propaganda outlets are.

[maxrandb]

19. It's hard to be specific when it's so prolific

Even the network like MSNBC where Rachel does a great job, devolve into journalist interviewing journalist, and then we can rest assured that Chris Matthews or some other schmuck will come on to talk about "gravitas" and "optics".

Instead of hard hitting journalism to get at the truth, we get innumerable town Halls with hayseeds from Dumbfuckistan Murika.

Pundits chuckling about how media savvy Donnie Shit for Brains is as he destroys our country is NOT news.

60-70% of the American people have never heard the story of this dipshits corruption in a meaningful, fact supported way!

It's no wonder people care more about a morning show host catching whipped cream in their mouth.

Yeah, that was actually a "discussion" on MSNBC in the middle of a fucking impeachment hearing.

[NewJeffCT]

24. and don't forget with MSNBC

Morning Joe and Mika helped legitimize Trump - even though he was caught on mic begging them not ask him tough questions.

[Catch2.2]

13. Instead....

the media is too busy having right wing pundits on their show so they can have view points from "both sides". As a result, they end up giving exposure to the right wing/trump propaganda that has corrupted this country!

[Prof.Higgins]

15. But Hillary Clinton's emails were catnip for news media, NYT especially! nt

[maxrandb]

20. How many "Butter email" stories does it take for them to stop accusing us of bias

That's a number that doesn't exist

[iluvtennis]

16. Exactly. nt

[mucifer]

21. I still don't see impeachment as the number one story on the news.

[smirkymonkey]

22. +1000

[MarianJack]

25. True, but what about Hillary Clinton's emails?

RESIST!

[dem4decades]

26. Well now they know what they don't know.

And more importantly, they can't deny knowing it.

[napi21]

27. Not excusing their actions but the reason is that DT will demonize ANY person or org. that

puts him in a bad light. (Much like they've done to CNN. They all want & need his input to be able to do their job & if he and his surrogates will not appear on your Network, you are at a disadvantage.

Does make me wonder HOW the media has gotten the reputation of leaning left wing!!!

[Nitram]

28. Again, blaming the media. Yes, a significant portion of the media is clueless or

totally right wing. But there is a lot of excellent reporting and journalism going on, and we would all be totally clueless if it wasn't. Our enemy is the GOP and the right wing, not "the media." Whoever blames the media for the mess we're in should reflect on the fact that Trump hates the media, and blame it for all his problems.

[Native]

29. !!!!

[Midnight Writer]

30. A large part of the Impeachment case was evidence brought to light by the media.

Even Congress with subpoena power can't get information of documents from The White House. The media is doing better with FOIA lawsuits. As a result, most of what we know is from reporting by our media.

[maxsolomon]

33. Yeah but.

They are fallible, and that's unforgiveable.