The Media Industry

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  1. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Here is CNN literally fawning over Obama's use of data mining
    A Rep does the same and now CNN thinks its illegal

     
  2. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Just 11 years ago

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  3. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    I think we can safely answer that question in the affirmative.
     
  4. ProdigalHorn

    ProdigalHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Wall-to-wall coverage by CNN of the Stormy Daniels story, continuously lambasting the president for his sexual behavior and pushing the narrative story for no apparent reason other than the tawdry details - particularly considering that there appears to have been no effort to investigate the one claim that she made which would have a bearing on Trump's presidency.

    And today, there's this:


    How do they not see the problem? How do they not understand why their trust from so many in this country has disappeared?
     
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  5. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    LOL! Sinclair media.
     
  6. Crockett

    Crockett 5,000+ Posts

    Maybe they are just pulling a Fox News and only putting out stuff its audience likes to hear. If you don't like the bullcrap (and I don't) kinda have to ignore FOX, MSNBC, CNN and the rest of them. Fortunately, reading is a much more efficient method of news intake.
     
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  7. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    I'm tired of the glorification and references to this day of "Camelot". A bunch of criminals and womanizers.
     
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  8. Garmel

    Garmel 5,000+ Posts

    I think it's great that they're informing viewers of the despicable nature of the media.
     
  9. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    John Oliver's take:
     
  10. Garmel

    Garmel 5,000+ Posts

    LOL! Like that poor woman has never had to do her job before. This was nothing more than a corporate entity telling their employees what to do/say. *gasp* If Oliver wants to be shocked maybe he should look at the MSM propaganda that inundates our networks. Kinda like how in unison they tried to make McCabe look like he was a victim of Trump the Tyrant.
     
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  11. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    To be fair, when it comes to politics most of the written media isn't dramatically less biased than the video media. Is the New York Times fairer than MSNBC? Maybe, but it's not a blowout. Are there New York Post and Washington Times fairer than Fox News? I guess, but again, it's not a blowout.
     
  12. ProdigalHorn

    ProdigalHorn 10,000+ Posts

    So now I've actually heard the message (and not the officially approved outrage points), and my question would be what about the message was objectionable? Or is the issue that various news casters were all reading the same script from the same source? Because that's pretty much what happens every day in broadcast news rooms - the only difference being that the wire service is the entity that writes the script.

    If CNN had read this script, I suspect the response would have been very different.
     
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  13. Crockett

    Crockett 5,000+ Posts

    I think there are plenty of context clues in written media to identify opinion and attribution is more direct and abundant.
     
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  14. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I think it's fair to criticize the Sinclair media people. They're obviously trying to cater to the old people who watch the local afternoon news. The problem is that the people who are ripping Sinclair don't have any credibility. This is like Charlie Manson complaining about all the crazy people surrounding him in prison.
     
  15. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    Or like ANY politician screaming hypocrite to anyone, or "look, he took money". Ha. Ha. Ha
     
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  16. ProdigalHorn

    ProdigalHorn 10,000+ Posts

    And having heard more of the track record from Sinclair, I can definitely see issues with how they've handled things in the past. So I'm definitely not saying that they're faultless in any of this.
     
  17. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    The WAPO's motto is "Democracy Dies in Darkness"

    Should this paper, sometimes called "The Jeff Bezos Blog," be forced to register as a foreign lobbyist?

    [​IMG]
     
  18. Garmel

    Garmel 5,000+ Posts

    What things in the past have they done have been controversial?
     
  19. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    It's nice to see Trump's dog whistle is effective in it's target audience.
     
  20. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Anyone remember Bill O'Reilly? A judge just denied his attempt to keep his sexual harassment settlements sealed. Evidently one plaintiff's lawyer switched from working for her to Bill O'Reilly in one case. At least one settlement...

    There are sleazes on all sides of the political spectrum but this guy may be KING of the sleazes.
     
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  21. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Kudos to Foxnews for this interview of Scott Pruitt. They asked some tough questions. Pruitt's responses were flimsy but credit is due to the interviewer. Pruitt was in the pocket of the energy industry as AG and this latest fracas is merely a another demonstration of how far he's intertwined with big energy, unless the EPA has changed their mission statement to match the Energy department (this is possible under Pruitt's leadership).
     
  22. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    We could call him a nice counter balance to the libs that ran wild with unnecessary regulation when they held that office.
     
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  23. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Counterbalance akin to the Patriots signing Johny Manziel to be a counterbalance to Tom Brady in every way.
     
  24. ProdigalHorn

    ProdigalHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Among the standards he's rolling back is the requirement that auto makers get their fleet average MPG up to around 50 - which is literally impossible - but then giving them an out if they will sell electric cars at heavily discounted rates. Nothing but a pure shakedown of the industry. Glad it's going away.
     
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  25. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    EPA has gone way beyond what is needed. I think the pendulum can swing the opposite way a while before we have to worry about clean air and water
     
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  26. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    That's a semi-accurate analogy based on your perspective. You have gone from an overzealous government bureaucrat willing to do the bidding of the looney environmentalists to a business supporting, anti-government EPA chief that won't dance to your tune.
     
  27. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

  28. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    I was sitting in the cafeteria at work yesterday. CNN was on the big screen TV. The banner news at the bottom of the screen, for the entire time I was there, was "Trump sending troops to the border". The CNN news folks and their guests were discussing it too.

    To them, it was roughly equivalent to Hitler invading Poland. I didn't hear mention that Obama and Bush 44 had also sent troops to the border during their regimes. Not exactly unbiased reporting, I'd say.
     
  29. ProdigalHorn

    ProdigalHorn 10,000+ Posts

  30. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    During testimony, Ted Cruz forced Zuckerberg to tacitly admit that Facebook is not a politically-neutral platform. Today, Cruz wrote a short article about this
    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018...uppressing-conservative-speech-for-years.html


    Facebook Has Been Censoring or Suppressing Conservative Speech for Years
    " ....... Zuckerberg told the Senate hearing that his goal is “not to engage in political speech.” But if a company allows a politically biased corporate culture to persist – and deliberately avoids diversity of thought in its hires – its actions can very quickly escalate into the political realm and endanger its status as a true “platform for all ideas.”

    According to Zuckerberg, Facebook employs over 15,000 people in security and content review. If all or virtually all are left-wing Democrats – and if they are empowered to secretly silence the voices of all with whom they disagree – that poses profound threats to our democratic discourse....."
     
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