Great article from The Atlantic - The Media Learned Nothing from 2016

[sekker]

Trump just plays them like a fiddle around false equivalencies.

Great example starting with Mueller himself.

I saw it on full display last week where The Orange Idiot did a horrible and deceitful town hall while Biden was criticized for his quite minor gaffs and his stuttering. Ugh.

They are complicit because covering the train wreck gets advertising dollars and cache.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...es/616222/

[rgG]

I agree. They were a huge part of why he got elected.

[samintx]

I hope Cheeto will be ignored in the coming 4. When was the last time we discussed policy, bills, what was happening in the world ? All that has been discussed in print and tellie, radio is “him”.

[sekker]

rgG wrote:
I agree. They were a huge part of why he got elected.

The point is that they know this; it’s Groundhog Day only they aren’t learning.

[sekker]

samintx wrote:
I hope Cheeto will be ignored in the coming 4. When was the last time we discussed policy, bills, what was happening in the world ? All that has been discussed in print and tellie, radio is “him”.

I listen to BBC Global News podcast to hear what’s happening in the rest of the world. They declared 45 an overt racist running on the 1968 playbook in March and give US politics minor play.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Even Bloomberg news has danced around the issue of the Orange Galactic Embarrassment's lies. It is labeled as "confusion" when he vomits up a bald faced lie that has been scientifically been proven to be wrong. It seems obvious that they do not want to offend the deplorables demographic in case it might harm their ratings.

[$tevie]

rgG wrote:
I agree. They were a huge part of why he got elected.

Yes. I'm still spitting nails about it.

And why is it that HRC can pass out at an event from pneumonia and she is about to die and cable news camps outside her building for the entire day -- but Trump can stumble, and drag his leg all the time, and slur his words, and creep down a ramp like a frail old man, and the only reason we know all this is because people on Twitter share videos?