Tag: Main Stream Media
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Why Our Main Stream News Media Sucks — “It’s The Framing, Stupid” Edition
It physically hurts watching most of our Main Stream News Media grapple with Donald Trump. He’s so much a creature of their making — his entertainer’s DNA is the same as theirs — that they fail to see their own fatal flaws in him. It’s days/weeks/months/a presidency like this that make me think about Paddy…
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Why America’s News Media Sucks — The “Nicolle Wallace” Exception
By all rights, a left wing loon like me should detest Nicolle Wallace from a thousand miles away. But I adore her. I adore her show, Deadline White House on MSNBC. If you aren’t watching it or listening to it, you’re missing one of the few bright spots in the American News Media firmament —…
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Why Our Main Stream News Media Sucks – “Benefit Of The Doubt” Edition
The most frustrating words to tumble from any reporter’s mouth is “Yeah, but what if…?” because what always follows is that reporter giving someone or something the benefit of the doubt it almost assuredly doesn’t deserve. MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhl is a talented financial reporter. But her great still set constantly gets compromised by an incessant…
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Why Our News Media Sucks — Steve Kornacki Edition
I consume a lot of news — not so much for the news as because the storyteller in me hates watching the story of all our lifetimes get fumbled so completely by America’s Main Stream News Media. As I’ve blogged here, American journalism is infected with a number of diseases, “Both Sides Do It-ism” being…
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Dear America: You Can Have Baby Talk Or You Can Have Truth; You Cannot Have Both
Donald Trump being president (footnote – illegitimate president) has put America’s Main Stream News Media in a pickle. How do you report the Truth when the Truth speaks dirty words? I could almost get nostalgic for the days when each TV Talking Head had to decide how they were going to handle “pussy-grabbing”. The thought…
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When The Time Comes To Give The American MSM Its Report Card For Reporting On Donald Trump – They’re Going To Fail – MISERABLY
Living inside a slow motion train wreck is wearing us out. We can see the catastrophe we’re heading toward. We can see what’s driving us there. But we can’t seem to find where the brakes are — or how to put our foot on them. A big part of what makes the experience so agonizing…
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Maya Angelou Had It SOOOOOO Right – When People Tell You Who They Are…
If you want me to be your friend — but, the fact is, you hate Jews on sight — I’m not seeing a future for our relationship regardless of how much you tell me MY being Jewish isn’t an issue for you. That’s not the point, right? You’re an anti-Semite. It’s who you are. I…
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Let’s Prepare For The Disappointment Now: At The End Of The Day, The Press WILL Let Us Down
Now, I don’t mean EVERYONE in the Main Stream Media. But ALMOST everyone. We shouldn’t be here — at the precipice of our Republic going down the toilet because of Republic-ans. If we don’t pull this back from the brink and an honest history of our times never gets written, the story will never be…
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Connect-The-Dots For Dummies
I should be sympathetic to our over-burdened Mainstream News Media. How do you cover a story that’s always in Breaking News mode? Maybe part of the reason the story’s always IN Breaking News mode is because the American News Media lack the perspective to see the picture their dots are connecting until the very last…
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Slavery Sucks. All Forms Of Slavery, That Is — Including The “Subtle” Ones…
Slavery has been a thing homo sapiens do (we don’t know if any other human species did it) since we figured out we could force someone else to work for free. Slavery, in its essence, is stolen labor. Yes, it’s a stolen life. But, from the point of view of the enslaver, the goal is…