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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI conclude the print media is doing its job/ the tv media is not
OK, if they don't release the oppo, the big loud dirty oppo today, it's moot. Guardian and Newsweek doing their job. TV, excepting Rachel and Lawrence, silent.
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I conclude the print media is doing its job/ the tv media is not (Original Post)
jodymarie aimee
Nov 2016
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Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)1. Good call - expect the republican party to take notice
and find ways to try to put the final nails in the print media's coffins.
emulatorloo
(44,130 posts)2. I agree. Print media doing well. Cable news is distraction and fluff.
Except for those 3 or 4 hours of evening lucidity on MSNBC
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)3. Agree - especially the editorial page endoresments
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)4. Yes, for the most part.
The fact that Trump has received almost no endorsements from major newspapers, even from ones that have been historically been very conservative, is telling.
Thanks a lot, Ted Turner, for starting this mess!
24-hour news is more "infotainment" than information.
budkin
(6,703 posts)6. EMAILS!!!
Have you heard about them??