Why is No One Holding the Media as An Accomplice in the Russian Hacking Scandal?

[Chasstev365]

Putin's campaign included helpingTrump by casting Hillary in an unfavorable light. Wow: the American media sure did it's part!

[Squinch]

1. True. False equivalencies and the refusal to vet information was the other leg on this stool.

Without it, this could never have happened. They failed and failed miserably.

[Vinca]

2. The media should be held responsible and they could change their ways today.

I'm stunned the way they treat Trump as "normal." He's not. There's nothing even remotely sane about this entire event. The installation of Putin's choice as POTUS is the story of the century and they're letting it slip by.

[golfguru]

3. I blame mr. Podesta for selecting his email password.

His password was "password"! How dumb!

[mythology]

4. There is no evidence of that, unless you count the lying rapist Assange

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jan/06/jesse-watters/claim-john-podestas-email-password-was-password-la/

Google doesn't allow your gmail password to be set to password.

His Windows 8 password was in fact p@ssword, but there is no evidence that his gmail password was password.

If you want to blame Podesta, blame him for entering his password after being spearfished. But lots of people get caught up in that.

[Tanuki]

7. Correct----rapists like Assange often use the "she was asking for it" rationale.

Why was she dressed that way? Why did he have that password?

[golfguru]

17. I blame Podesta more for something else, not his password so much.

To my knowledge, FBI had warned DNC more than once, that foreign powers were hacking DNC cyber systems. How did DNC respond to FBI warnings?

[hadEnuf]

5. The media is nothing more than a corporate animal at this point.

They will print or say anything that gives them ratings, aka, money.

There is very little actual journalism in the mainstream media anymore.

[tanyev]

6. Excellent question. Also other elected Republicans.

They should be announcing their intentions to file articles of impeachment on Jan. 21.

[DFW]

8. That's like asking the Huns to hold Attila responsible for the use of excessive force

The media have their own version of the Fifth Amendment. "If we were complicit, don't expect us to expose and convict ourselves."

They were, and we don't.

[LaydeeBug]

9. Les Moonves even said something like, "Oh, well, it's bad for America, but good for CBS"

I thought they weren't allowed to lie to the American people like that, but I was apparently wrong.

That's why I haven't watched one mother fucking second of it since election afternoon.

[ALBliberal]

10. Pelosi called the Media out. Nt

[CETrotman]

12. Yeah but....

Way too late. Should have been screaming from day one. The GOP planned their destruction the first day Obama took office and did not let up. Demi are weak and that is why they lose.

[CETrotman]

11. Why?

Because the Dems were and are too quiet. Where is the outrage and call for protest? Bernie is the most quiet of them all...oh...I forgot...he is NOT a democrat. If this was the GOP there would be blood in the streets.

[uponit7771]

15. +1, Dem MoC take shotguns to tank fights and expect to win

[Feeling the Bern]

13. Same reason IAD always finds cops not guilty. They investigate themselves to discover

they did nothing wrong.

The media will investigate itself and exonerate itself.

[uponit7771]

14. +++++++ YES, MORE STORIES ON EMAIL THAN ALL OTHER ISSUES COMBINED +++++

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

16. Maybe they are, but the media isn't reporting it.