What will history say about todays mainstream "news media?"

[UltraChad]

They're not.

Trump only became president because the media in 2015 decided to pay attention to him and take him seriously.

Big mistake.

LOL!!!! SET THE COPE TO MAXIMUM!!!!

 

[Rebel5soul]

The dam broke with Musk's acquisition of Twitter.

 

[UltraChad]

The dam broke with Musk's acquisition of Twitter.

Yea letting people democrats don't agree with join the conversation really screwed things up for them.

If only they had more totalitarian control over speech they could stop fascism and save democracy from the voting people....

 

[Rebel5soul]

Yea letting people democrats don't agree with join the conversation really screwed things up for them.

If only they had more totalitarian control over speech they could stop fascism and save democracy from the voting people....

It was his exposure of the government/social media connection that was the signal event. A few months ago Zuckerberg, having seen the handwriting on the wall, came out and said, "Yea, we did it too."

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

They're not. Trump only became president because the media in 2015 decided to pay attention to him and take him seriously.

Big mistake.

You got a bit right for the first time. It was a calculated decision but it wasn’t for President Trump to be taken seriously. They inserted him to torpedo the “serious” candidates. Jeb Bush and the like. Prop him up, give him as much time to elbow those guys and create chaos. Have him take them out and then Hillary would beat him like a drum.

A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum though…he began to get traction! The elbows he brandished took out those with no constitution (the aforementioned Bush) and others who didn’t take the barbs and dirty bare knuckle fighting Trump brought to a more “refined” type of campaign these guys were used to.

I used to watch Morning joe a lot back then, and I remember Joe saying out loud after a DJT segment, “he has a free time slot, anytime he wants”…(I paraphrased that quote, but it was damn close).

They kept HIllary under wraps, she didn’t hardly do any campaign whistle stops that summer while President Trump was holding massive rallies. By the time her handlers realized she was in trouble, she couldn’t even stand up! Remember the 9/11 stop? She passed out and they threw her tired old carcass unceremoniously into a van!.

The rest is history. As usual. Radicalized dems, have the stick of dynamite blow up in their cartoon faces.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

This is old but it gives you a clue how incestuous the “media” and politicians are.

Republicans are guilty also, but not to the level dems are.

 

[JaySecrets]

You know, there is a fix to this. The Fairness Doctrine. Time to bring it back.

The Fairness Doctrine doesn't work and is dangerous.... because the GOVERNMENT ends up controlling what is "fair and balanced". Sounds nice, but is really anti-free-speech.

 

[JaySecrets]

He was never part of the MSM, was he?

EIB Network... So no

 

[JaySecrets]

He had talent on loan from God.

Actually appreciated that he acknowledged that, while he had worked to grow as a radio artist and a communicator, his talent was on loan from the God who created him for a purpose. Far more than the leftist elites in media and politics will ever admit.

 

[Xxllrs69xx]

Mainstream media is shockingly biased. The simple reporting of the current escalation in Gaza illustrates this point so succinctly: Israeli children were described rightly so as children whereas Palestinian children of the same age as young ladies. That was one just example. Personally I’ve stopped using mainstream media for information. I look at multiple sources and always question the language used.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

The Fairness Doctrine doesn't work and is dangerous.... because the GOVERNMENT ends up controlling what is "fair and balanced". Sounds nice, but is really anti-free-speech.

So how did the last 3 elections happen?

 

[JaySecrets]

Mainstream media is shockingly biased. The simple reporting of the current escalation in Gaza illustrates this point so succinctly: Israeli children were described rightly so as children whereas Palestinian children of the same age as young ladies. That was one just example. Personally I’ve stopped using mainstream media for information. I look at multiple sources and always question the language used.

You mean critical thinking? That can't be right. The leftists forbid such behavior.

 

[Politruk]

When very few people alive have ever used an electric appliance and most people are illiterate, historians writing in a blend of English, Spanish, and random bits of other languages may know something called "internet" existed but be fuzzy on what it was.

Industrial civilization is not about to collapse.

 

[Politruk]

You mean critical thinking? That can't be right. The leftists forbid such behavior.

"We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."

—Republican Party of Texas 2012 platform[1]

 

[JaySecrets]

"We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."

—Republican Party of Texas 2012 platform[1]

That was critical thinking redefined into LIBERAL thinking being forced into young minds to change their moral values and undermine parental authority, replacing Christian or Conservative parents with liberal teachers and wiping out the worldview influence of the parents in the child's life. That has the goal of the department of education for quite some time. As opposed to classical thinking and critical thinking classes that actually taught real analytic thought.

 

[Politruk]

That was critical thinking redefined into LIBERAL thinking being forced into young minds to change their moral values and undermine parental authority, replacing Christian or Conservative parents with liberal teachers and wiping out the worldview influence of the parents in the child's life.

That is the inevitable result of critical thinking as such.

 

[Rebel5soul]

And now the Trump people are signaling that the MSM reporters will be delegated to the 'back bench' at the white house briefings. They are going to be openly and repeatedly reminded that they're liars. Life can be a bitch.

 

[Politruk]

And now the Trump people are signaling that the MSM reporters will be delegated to the 'back bench' at the white house briefings. They are going to be openly and repeatedly reminded that they're liars. Life can be a bitch.

So who gets the front bench, Breitbart and Newsmax?

 

[AceDesSpades]

And now the Trump people are signaling that the MSM reporters will be delegated to the 'back bench' at the white house briefings. They are going to be openly and repeatedly reminded that they're liars. Life can be a bitch.

Reap that which is sowed.
Like the Democrat Party had a lock on the working man, the MSM had a lock on "our" bandwidth.
The Democrats became so isolated and elitist that they took both for granted and treated both as domain/property.


To revise an old theme of mine: they held technology constant as they planned for the future.
They were as ossified as our government and that should sound the alarm...

 

[Rebel5soul]

The whole MAGA thing in contagious. If you get a chance check out what's happening over in the UK.

 

[JaySecrets]

The whole MAGA thing in contagious. If you get a chance check out what's happening over in the UK.

That is because it isn't about Trump. People are sick of the left owning and controlling everything. Tired of their nations' decline at the hands of the entrenched establishment. And they are fighting back. They are waking up, determined to take their country back from those who have no love for it.

 

[Rebel5soul]

That is because it isn't about Trump. People are sick of the left owning and controlling everything. Tired of their nations' decline at the hands of the entrenched establishment. And they are fighting back. They are waking up, determined to take their country back from those who have no love for it.

I didn't say it was about Trump.

 

[dawnonyou]

CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC are controlled by the Democratic Party. The ownership, the management are all intertwined with the Democratic Pary. There is not only no daylight between the two, but they are simply one being. Fox news is slightly better by a few degrees. Without a doubt Fox carries the Republican Party's water but there is some daylight. Fox also benefited from the nearly billion-dollar ass kicking and has been chastened.

The Democratic Party SUCKS at providing actual news. The Democratic Party loves their control and power of the news and won't soon relinquish that power. No one should use them as a primary source of information. Until the ratings are so terrible that they can no longer survive economically, they are nothing but a scourge on this country and its citizens.

Well put. Good thing Trump has pulled back the curtain on the degree that fake news is FAKE NEWS.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Well put. Good thing Trump has pulled back the curtain on the degree that fake news is FAKE NEWS.

It was Elon that pulled back the curtain and provided the absolute proof of how complicit the government was in censorship. Trump suspected, hell, everyone suspected but Musk provided the proof.

 

[HisArpy]

And now the Trump people are signaling that the MSM reporters will be delegated to the 'back bench' at the white house briefings. They are going to be openly and repeatedly reminded that they're liars. Life can be a bitch.

If Trump really wanted to fuck over the MSM, he'd have the Press Secretary hand out printed copies of the daily briefing. No podium, no Q&A, no nada except the printouts.