Corp Media's Blatant False Equivalency of the campaigns

[FrenchieCat]

Of Trump and Clinton is dangerous and sick!

I only watched about three minutes of CNN this morning. And then became disgusted and turned to MSNBC for like two minutes, and then turned it all off!

The "all the rage" talking points happening now...apparently is that the election has devolved into nothing more than name-calling coming from both camps...and why aren't they talking about "Real issues"???

Apparently, Hillary Clinton has been found guilty by the media of "many many many scandals".....but that Trump is blowing any advantage over Hillary due to his own scandalous comments.

WTF????
Last I checked, Hillary had not been found guilty of any wrongdoing in any of these so-called "Many Many Many scandals" But it appears that our media has tried and convicted her as indeed guilty of these scandals, whlie Trump is only inept by not taking advantage of Hillary Clinton' scandals!

This is why I hate the corporate media… And rarely watch any "news" television!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Some media not got memo that profit now is in Slow Motion Train Wreck, not in Horse Race. . nt

[MADem]

2. I'd love to see an organized movement that told them to go f*ck themselves.

Pardon my French, but I feel as strongly as you do on this issue.

I'd love to see something where individuals rise up and use their twitters or facebooks to tell them to eat shit and bark at the moon every time they engage in that kind of bullshit. I'd happily participate! I do it on my own when I see it, but there's strength in numbers! Maybe someone on reddit can get something started!

[FrenchieCat]

11. I agree that something needs to be done....

And on my own...I feel helpless
And perhaps we need to do something!

[TrishaJ]

21. The quickest way to make an effective

statement against corporate infotainment pushed as "news" is to cut the cable. That's right. CUT the cable! Cut off a source of their income, as we all subsidize this crap through the cable bill.

OR, demand custom channel choices where you can decline to buy MSNBC, FOX, CNN. That's one route.

[MADem]

22. That's not happening in my home!

Cable is the one thing that keeps the peace--that, and more than one television! LOL!

I guess I'll have to keep on writing those "strongly worded letters" (emails) when I see something that utterly sucks...and of course, those alt-righters hit DELETE when they see them, I'm sure.

I wish I could hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE on them!!!!

[TrishaJ]

23. Unfortunately, not my home, either.

Only reason I keep cable is for the ESPNs and SEC Network.

It would be wonderful if I could just subscribe to this package only!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. This false equivalency is a direct result of blind application of "equal time" and

and a result of ignorant application of misguided "fair and balanced" policies (we discount Fox's subversion of that slogan). Fair does not mean equal time. Balanced does not mean equal time.

Fair and balanced coverage means educated perceptive coverage that rejects talking points and rejects exaggeration and rejects ignorance of science and rejects bigoted stances (like "War on Christmas" nonsense).

Unfortunately, the American public have been dumbed down by the media and by the culture to disrespect education and reason and wisdom.

Instead they laud athletes as some kind of "heroes" and movie stars as knowledgeable enough to weigh in on issues from apple pesticides to vaccination.

The public has been conditioned to demand teaching to the test instead of real education (critical thinking, analysis, reasoned debate). They have bought into the idea that education is about skills (being able to calculate a percentage).

They have been trained to reduce their empathy by Republicans.

The media have bought and paid for the current state of ignorance of the populace with the collusion of (mainly) the Republican Party because it is [font size = "+1" color = "red"]profitable.[/font]

[Wellstone ruled]

4. To the point.

Let's add with the dumping of the Fairness Doctrine by Ronnie the less than smart,and CBS seeing how much money can be made by going to a Infotainment Model,this is what is left in the test tube.

[PATRICK]

5. The last enemy

Thank God Trump is consistent(like most politicians the power makes them entitled to be so). The media is trying indeed to pump him up,take may be slightly frightened of Hillary giving them payback some day(one wishes!). Are trying desperately and stupidly occupying the place in the vacuum that was the shrill distracting voice of the hatemongering GOP. Lazy. Incompetent. Compared to Joe Blow(whose main weakness is being crippled by dishonest media) on the street not worth listening to for anything. Vastly overpaid since they are running everything they can into the ground. A parody of the end result of the movie "network". Hypocritical but not rationally critical, informed or even curious about obvious news angles, obvious mistakes, past record or present folly.

False equivalency is only one in a list of mortal sins of these anti-journalists, this braying pompous pravda we are saddled with as a supposed culture leader that lives to keep us ignorant and divided on the highway to hell.

And I can get away with saying this and more with only accidentally tuning in, passing by an obnoxious TV screen, or moving the other guy's fishwrap off the chair!

It might not be productive to train the sights on this last obstacle to sanity, but they deserve to be ignored, turned off and certainly not quoted or engaged in a flame war. What is the public approval rating for this monopoly of public media discourse? Approaching that of Congress and famous monsters of history. Pimps for Babylon.

Just not worth watching. If enough turn them off they collapse, because that is literally all they are capable of

Now pumping up a baseball team and leading fans to get enthused with expectations of victory favoring the underdog heroes most often does not effect real world results. But if the fans did the game by voting it would matter. This is the last enemy of truth, our own dysfunctional journalism.

[FrenchieCat]

16. Agreed....

"Just not worth watching"...the disinformation they bring to our living room! They are also the ones who keeps repeating how large the numbers are in reference to Hillary's unfavorables... When they know full well that it is THEM who are hammering that meme into their viewing public day in-day out every day thus far!

[uponit7771]

6. When Benedict Donald "hit back" it was always strong... when Clinton hits back its name calling

[sheshe2]

7. This is exactly why I never watch the TV news.

[rurallib]

8. Not sure about PBS, but you can count NPR in that mix

After 4+ decades of being an NPR listener, I can't seem to locate it on my radio anymore. All I get at the frequency they used to be on is something that sounds just like another corporate media outlet.

[world wide wally]

10. Just check out who their biggest donors are

They ARE corporate!

[rurallib]

15. Surprise - though the commercials they run give some hints.

[No Vested Interest]

9. I reject use of the word "scandals" regarding issues or situations for which

Sec. Clinton is being discussed by the media.

The word "scandal" is the lead in a Fox/Trump/Republican meme to discredit Hillary.

No need for her supporters or any Democrat to buy into that wording.

[MoonRiver]

12. I'm so sick of these media assholes!

Except for AMJoy, and a few other exceptions, MSNBC and CNN are unwatchable.

[FrenchieCat]

17. Agree!

At least it appears they are somewhat done with giving the Trump campaign advice....since that should never have been their job to begin with!

[MoonRiver]

18. Guess they've figured out that despite their best efforts, the SOB is going down.

They don't like to report about all the polls that favor Hillary, but this they can't cover-up, although much effort is made to spin them for Rump.

[Rex]

13. Been that way forever glad people notice how bad corporate media is.

They helped overthrow the 2000 elections with gusto! The MSM will do whatever it takes to make revenue, fuck the rest of us and our general welfare.

And they don't care if Trump is a madman that wants to use nukes...he is their paycheck.

[Bill USA]

14. M$M is made up entirely of GOP toadies. There is no legitimate journalism in M$M anymore.

[Binkie The Clown]

19. Corporate Media are a bunch of wimpy bastards afraid they might be called "liberal" if ...

...if they report the actual truth. Reality, after all, does have a liberal bias. That's not our doing. It's simply that conservatives believe so many things that simply aren't true, so to tell the truth is to be anti-conservative, by definition.

[Hekate]

20. KnR. I did the same -- it's beyond awful.