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Role of the Media

 
avalon said:
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And, not just talk to him, but actually influence and direct government policy! Whatever those clowns on "Fox & Friends" say each morning, somehow Trump nearly always tweets about it, and probably bases his policies on it. Forget all those experts who have spent their careers learning about their subject fields so they can advise presidents, now Jillian and her Fox & Friends buddies have that honor!
 
fairly sure the role of the media isn't to get the EPA administrator fired because he isn't a leftist tree hugger because he rents a room from someone who makes glass bottles.
 
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/380867-cnn-lost-its-way-in-struggle-to-find-an-audience

CNN’s warped obsession with reporting about supposed adultery demonstrates a larger problem at the once-proud and groundbreaking channel. CNN’s focus is not on news, but on distracting itself and the nation’s news consumers with peripheral and sensation gibberish that fails to enhance the national dialogue. In the run-up and aftermath to the recently passed government spending bill, CNN mentioned McDougal and Daniels more than three times as often as the spending bill. The spending bill, of course, isn’t photogenic, but it impacts citizens way more than a playmate model.
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More serious than using campaign funds to pay off a mistress?
 
The oped from the Hill that Sailor posted is totally on point. In the current news cycle we've got:

- Hundreds of protesting Palestinians shot by Israeli border guards

- Trump proposed military pull out of Syria

- Syrian Army nearly eradicated ISIS/al nusra, confronting Turkish forces

- Mass Yemeni casualties from Cholera epedemic caused by US backed Saudi war and blockaid

- Multiple statewide teacher strikes, with more to come

- Day 4 of Sacramento protests over Stejon Clark shooting

- post trial release of bodycam footage of Alton Sterling shooting basically proving his murder

- CRAPO bank deregulation bill passage

- new tax bill

- pending Supreme court Janus union dues decision


not going to pretend that Sailor wouldn't be equally obsessed with a scandal plagued Democratic administration.
 
Instead of any of that, we get more Stormy Daniels interviews and the daily report on the color and consistency of Robert Muellers shit.
 
They’re also not reporting on the ever growing Hillary, FBI, FISA, etc scandals that only Fox is bravely dedicating prime time coverage to.
 
BarcaDeac said:
They’re also not reporting on the ever growing Hillary, FBI, FISA, etc scandals that only Fox is bravely dedicating prime time coverage to.
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they're both crap, would just be nice for everyone to admit it rather than "well my sides not nearly as bad"
 
Meh just saying that no one on tv is covering those things because interviews with pornstars and sinister conspiracy theories drive better ratings than bank bills and Israe Palestine. Not saying it’s right just saying that’s the reality of cable news channels.
 
BarcaDeac said:
Meh just saying that no one on tv is covering those things because interviews with pornstars and sinister conspiracy theories drive better ratings than bank bills and Israe Palestine. Not saying it’s right just saying that’s the reality of cable news channels.
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It's not just cable news. Which topics do you think consistently have the most attention on this politics board? That's actually what disappoints me the most, considering that we're all well educated here. I know that many of us are well travelled, have done extensive volunteer work, are politically active. All that experience and education, but we're still focused on surface level tabloid politics. I don't understand it.

Talk to a fry cook, a gas station attendant, a homeless person, a person waiting at a bus stop. See if they have any fucking clue who Guccifer 2.0 is. Yet I bet they all have more important problems directly related to local and state politics.
 
The epidemic of obesity is brought up here sometimes, and often its pointed out that a major contributor to obesity is that the most easily accessible foods are the least healthy. That seems like a great analogy here. The smartest, most educated people supposedly make the healthiest decisions, right? So why do you all gorge yourself.on junk food politics?
 
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