Frontrunner Hillary Clinton Faces Anti-Clinton Media Narrative (HILLARY GROUP)

[DeepModem Mom]

We have been witnessing the most biased reporting of any election I have ever seen. This isn't only about FOX news spouting lies and bringing racists on to attack President Obama. This is about the media apparently doing all it can to bring down Hillary Clinton by skewing every report, including blatant headlines containing lies in The New York Times.

In the past few day's two new national polls, one from Suffolk University the other from Quinnipiac came out. Any candidate seeing numbers like Hillary has in those polls would be opening champagne and their opponents would be figuring out what they are doing wrong. After months of a non-stop barrage of negative attacks by Republicans and the press, Clinton still leads the Democratic primary contest by huge numbers and beats every Republican candidate in general election match-ups. She is also leading the Democratic contest in every primary state except for one poll in New Hampshire, which has her a few percentage points behind Sanders. She is 56 percent ahead of the field in South Carolina. Now, according to VOX, the various media are reporting these great numbers for Clinton with their own headlines. Bloomberg says, "Biden More Competitive Than Clinton Against Leading Republicans: Poll"; Politico reports, "Poll: Biden outperforms Hillary in general election; Trump leads GOP field"; and Time says, "Voters open to Joe Biden presidential bid in new poll."

Then Thursday evening I heard Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News talking about the Quinnipiac poll saying, "New poll shows Biden is running a wave of popularity over Hillary Clinton." One has to wonder either what drugs he is on or whose biases he is channeling. Both these polls show Hillary's lead in the Democratic Primary is staying strong. Biden actually comes in third behind Sanders. That is nearly 30 percent behind Clinton. How one can determine that he is riding a wave of popularity is incredible. He actually only has about a 10 percent higher favorable rating than Hillary in one poll and that is after she has been attacked for months, and Biden has yet to enter the fray where he will surely get beaten up quickly.

In fact, according to Daily Kos, "at the beginning of March, Clinton led the GOP field by an average of 50.3 to 42.6, or 7.7 percentage points. Now, in late August, she leads 48.7 to 41.2, or 7.5 percent. Clinton's "collapse," in other words, is 0.2 percent! No serious analyst would consider that anything more than a rounding error. (And we're not cherry-picking the start date, either: The picture is the same if you dial it back to Jan. 1.)"...

http://t.co/o3qhC7TUKX via Huffington Post

[BooScout]

1. If it bleeds it leads....

The media is using Clinton as it's punching bag to try and sell ad space and get those viewers of their tv news shows and websites.

It seems to me, what needs to be investigated is the media for making a Presidential race all about profits rather than the truth.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. Good point! And they boost readership and ratings by covering ego Trump on the GOP side. What a...

disservice to the country!

[Gothmog]

3. The media has a vested interesting in promoting fiction that a race is close

Sanders has no chance of being the Democratic nominee. However, some want people to believe that Sanders is viable just to generate ratings

[Iliyah]

4. HRC supporters know the truth, but alas the corporate media and their masters

want a different narrative first and foremost making HRC look bad at any cost. Get her out of way for 2016 presidential election and it can be smooth sailing for the insane GOP to take the WH.

[Thinkingabout]

5. When you are sitting on the top the wolves will be after you, we know this and I am going to sit in

The top seat with pride. The whole bunch would love to be where she is. Furthermore she has worked very hard to get where she is, I am going to continue to support Hillary.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. Great post!

[greatlaurel]

7. Remember the MSM depend on a horse race for their paychecks.

The so called journalists care not a whit for the good of the United States and the people who live here, especially the people of color, lower class and working class people who are the most at risk from the Republican Party policies. Most journalists are from nice comfortable middle and upper class families. They know nothing about rural issues, poverty, homelessness, lack of health care and many other issues that confront regular people. Journalists also tend to attack public workers, especially teachers and other helping professions. You would think after so many people working for newspapers have lost their jobs, some in the media would get a clue that they are not safe. But it appears the ones that are still published and put on the air have resorted to being cheerleaders for the 1%. They have become the employees that always agree with the boss even when it takes down the entire operation.

We need a new journalism model. Unfortunately, television has been turned completely into a vast wasteland. Young people are turning away from traditional media in droves.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. Thanks for your thoughts on this. And I knew that Millenials shun media...

but had thought it was only that they get info a different way. Could also be that traditional media so often, to use their word, "sucks"!

[greatlaurel]

9. Thank you for posting the link.

The young people I know do not pay any attention to the TV news and very little attention to print media, as well. They read a lot, but it is mainly on the books, the computer or their phone. They also listen to a lot of podcasts to get information. It is amazing how much information is being put on podcasts. They are extremely well informed and they know where to find original information. The GOP is desperate to stop HRC so they can enact draconian laws in their desperation and maintain the power of the 1%. The GOP has lost the majority of young people.

[pansypoo53219]

10. they are treating her JUST LIKE GORE. beware them foisting a W on amerika. we are being FUXED AGAIN.

[DeepModem Mom]

11. Whoa, you are right. Just like Gore. And it would be Trump foisted on us. n/t