At this point, I put much of our political media in the same category as Philip Morris and the other cigarette companies back in the day. They're in it for the money, and they will happily ignore the larger consequences of those actions, up to and including the death of the American Experiment.
They might not be actively trying to destory the country, but as the saying goes, "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." I have absolutely cancelled subscriptions on account of "sufficiently advanced incompetence", and I regularly and strongly encourage others to do so.
I dropped the Washington Post like a stone after Sargent was bought out and Waldman left (a layoff? a buy out?), they shut down their research department and a Rupert Murdock approved publisher had signed on to do Bezos' bidding. The newspaper of Woodward, Bernstein and Graham is long gone.
MSM supports Donald Trump. Period. If they reported on him honestly, we wouldn’t be here. If they report this honestly, his campaign will be over. But they won’t!
If Kamala Harris reposted a meme about Trump that was of the same sexual nature as the meme HE did, the MSM would not be able to shut up about it.
Everyone needs to get out and vote BLUE up and down the ballot so Harris gets in and gets backing in congress to undo TRUMPS’s TERRIBLE LEGISLATIONS. This time there is only ONE candidate who’ll support America. That's why I wear this reminder everyday 🤣 👇
Me too. For the same reasons and because, after years, they keep growing their roster of unhinged opinion writers. No one can deny it's an editorial choice, not an oversight. The MSM have lost credibility by not covering the obvious. Brian Tyler Cohen summed it up nicely the other day when he said, essentially, that their loss is his (and other independent media's) gain. Foreign press--DW, the Guardian, BBC, and even Al Jazeera are more credible than US corporate media. And I still find "straight news" organizations like the LA Times to be OK as far as they go.
I agree. Wapo would rather pay former Manafort/Stone 5-year employee Marc Thiessen to plagiarize GOP talking points than to have commentary with thoughtful original content. I wrote to the editors numerous times about it. Zero response. Their defense is silence, while they were attacking Harris for giving no interview (which of course PAYS them).
Yes! Same here. Note that watching on TV via cable or satellite still counts are consuming because they know what you are watching. As long as people traceably consume this garbage there will be no repercussions for the media and its further tabloidization.
I’ve never read his Substack before today, but what fucking garbage. He is a fucking corporate media apologist. The CM most certainly does not believe this is an act — Donny Fuckface being Donny. Waksman is fucking complicit in the betrayal of journalistic principles. And he can absolutely fuck all the way off. I’m sorry I opened this piece of shit because another person restacked it. 💩
The purpose of The Media is to MAKE MONEY for the already super-rich.
And close political races make by far the most... So the media MAKE THEM CLOSE artificially, unethically.
Truth rarely makes a profit. Before the end of the Fairness Doctrine, news departments competed on accuracy and honour, since none of them made money on news.
The Media are destroying the planet just as surely as Big Oil, for outrageous, unethical greed
Even "Trump says crazy stuff" should be a huge red flag. I certainly don't want the president, or a presidential candidate, to say crazy stuff. We have Emo Phillips for that.
Sorry, no. As blatant as the thumb on scale is for Trump at this point—Harris has to be perfect or she’s endlessly criticized, Trump can talk about shark electrocution and Hannibal Lecter and the MSM cleans it up—Occam’s Razor leads to the obvious conclusion: they want him to win. I don’t think they actually want Trump personally to win, it’s that they want the Republican candidate to win. They’d rather be handing the election to Haley, but since Trump’s the Republican candidate he gets their support. Read Josh Marshall on how the political media is wired for Republicans.
At this point, we have to stop calling them MSM, because they’re not mainstream. The only name that makes sense to me is to call them Corporate Media, because as corporations make decisions based on their own self-interests, as far as I can tell, the C class employees are doing exactly that when editing stories and creating headlines.
IMO, Trump has a late-onset frontotemporal dementia. This is manifested by his loss of executive control and garbled speech. Dad, Fred, Sr. died with dementia, not further specified. No therapy exists, so Trump will continue to mentally deconstruct. Peter, MD, Portland Maine
I watch most of the MSNBC lineup but the moment a host introduces a reporter from WaPo or NYT or Politico or Axios I’m out. Don’t trust any of them. Which is why my favorites among MSNBC anchors are Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Joy Ann Reid, Lawrence O’Donnell and most of Morning Joe. None of them compromises, or does only when forced to it seems, but I stay far away from the Andrea Mitchells and Katy Turs because I don’t give a rat’s ass about whatever upsets the MAGA crowd on any given day.
And when are we going to ask Andrea Mitchell to retire? She's watching past her expiration date. I caught her on TV the other day and she literally kept making the same statement or asked the same question during her entire spot. Give it a rest. Retire! Go home and relax. PLEASE!! and don't get me started on Tur(d)
For fuck’s sake. The corporate media does 💯 % not belief this is an act. They are complicit in his crimes and they care only about money. And you, Herr Waldman, can fuck all the way off for this apologist bullshit!
How on earth can the press justify the hatchet job they did on Biden because of his age if they do exactly the same thing to Trump? Of course they would lose what little credibility they have left, so it's all about not losing their audience.
The author is skipping the notion that they would not mind a Trump win, as journalists, as it would guarantee years of non-boring politics. It's not like they like writing about tax rates.
But, more than his win being useful, it would be TERRIBLE if the race itself were boring. If they piled onto Trump, the already-leaning odds might become a rout, and October would be boring stories about inevitability.
I don't think they really want Trump to win, they're humans and Americans; but above all, they would love a very, very close race, and ongoing drama into 2025 because of THAT.
Trump is more insane than the mad king George the Third. The distinguishing factor is however that George the Third actually accomplished many things. Trump accomplished nothing during his four years in office. But for enriching himself.
It's pretty dearranged for the orange cockroach to a state that schools are performing secret operations on children without parental consent.
It's chilling to think how this fatass would act after a couple years in the White House. The orange Hitler would be feared just like Adolf Hitler was feared. Trump would be as nutty as King George III.
I would think the media doesn't report it because trump voters are so volatile that they will simply ignore that media source – and the media can't afford to lose readers. The editors know this, certainly. They will not kill their golden goose.
The "press" was, is, and will be critical of any category of statement or action that Harris or Biden have ever took or will take. This framework that the OP invented is only valid if described as Democrat vs Republican, where all actions by a Democrat are viewed with a critical eye.
Quite a meaningless essay/post. Reporters are not A"i" software to characterize them your way. Whatever the actual reason - I see 2 and it could be both - the detrimental, despicable and unacceptable role they and their gangs play in our society neeeds to be both exposed and rejected by the citizenry.
At this point, I put much of our political media in the same category as Philip Morris and the other cigarette companies back in the day. They're in it for the money, and they will happily ignore the larger consequences of those actions, up to and including the death of the American Experiment.
They might not be actively trying to destory the country, but as the saying goes, "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." I have absolutely cancelled subscriptions on account of "sufficiently advanced incompetence", and I regularly and strongly encourage others to do so.
I dropped the Washington Post like a stone after Sargent was bought out and Waldman left (a layoff? a buy out?), they shut down their research department and a Rupert Murdock approved publisher had signed on to do Bezos' bidding. The newspaper of Woodward, Bernstein and Graham is long gone.
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.
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MSM supports Donald Trump. Period. If they reported on him honestly, we wouldn’t be here. If they report this honestly, his campaign will be over. But they won’t!
If Kamala Harris reposted a meme about Trump that was of the same sexual nature as the meme HE did, the MSM would not be able to shut up about it.
Everyone needs to get out and vote BLUE up and down the ballot so Harris gets in and gets backing in congress to undo TRUMPS’s TERRIBLE LEGISLATIONS. This time there is only ONE candidate who’ll support America. That's why I wear this reminder everyday 🤣 👇
https://shorter.me/WB01D
We’re NOT going back. We’re going FORWARD.
I dropped the Washington Post....
Me too. For the same reasons and because, after years, they keep growing their roster of unhinged opinion writers. No one can deny it's an editorial choice, not an oversight. The MSM have lost credibility by not covering the obvious. Brian Tyler Cohen summed it up nicely the other day when he said, essentially, that their loss is his (and other independent media's) gain. Foreign press--DW, the Guardian, BBC, and even Al Jazeera are more credible than US corporate media. And I still find "straight news" organizations like the LA Times to be OK as far as they go.
I agree. Wapo would rather pay former Manafort/Stone 5-year employee Marc Thiessen to plagiarize GOP talking points than to have commentary with thoughtful original content. I wrote to the editors numerous times about it. Zero response. Their defense is silence, while they were attacking Harris for giving no interview (which of course PAYS them).
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Yes! Same here. Note that watching on TV via cable or satellite still counts are consuming because they know what you are watching. As long as people traceably consume this garbage there will be no repercussions for the media and its further tabloidization.
I cancelled my subscription to Waldman's Substack. He was much better when he wrote for WaPo, and his recent book is crap.
I’ve never read his Substack before today, but what fucking garbage. He is a fucking corporate media apologist. The CM most certainly does not believe this is an act — Donny Fuckface being Donny. Waksman is fucking complicit in the betrayal of journalistic principles. And he can absolutely fuck all the way off. I’m sorry I opened this piece of shit because another person restacked it. 💩
Yet your still here.
And your point is...
I paid to be here. How about you?
You read "crap" writers is my point. They must not be "crap," or you read "crap." How interesting what some people say about themselves.
No no no. The real reason:
Remember: ...
The purpose of The Media is to MAKE MONEY for the already super-rich.
And close political races make by far the most... So the media MAKE THEM CLOSE artificially, unethically.
Truth rarely makes a profit. Before the end of the Fairness Doctrine, news departments competed on accuracy and honour, since none of them made money on news.
The Media are destroying the planet just as surely as Big Oil, for outrageous, unethical greed
Even "Trump says crazy stuff" should be a huge red flag. I certainly don't want the president, or a presidential candidate, to say crazy stuff. We have Emo Phillips for that.
Sorry, no. As blatant as the thumb on scale is for Trump at this point—Harris has to be perfect or she’s endlessly criticized, Trump can talk about shark electrocution and Hannibal Lecter and the MSM cleans it up—Occam’s Razor leads to the obvious conclusion: they want him to win. I don’t think they actually want Trump personally to win, it’s that they want the Republican candidate to win. They’d rather be handing the election to Haley, but since Trump’s the Republican candidate he gets their support. Read Josh Marshall on how the political media is wired for Republicans.
They do want Trump to win, because when he was in office the stories wrote themselves.
At this point, we have to stop calling them MSM, because they’re not mainstream. The only name that makes sense to me is to call them Corporate Media, because as corporations make decisions based on their own self-interests, as far as I can tell, the C class employees are doing exactly that when editing stories and creating headlines.
PS just canceled my subscription to this writer.
IMO, Trump has a late-onset frontotemporal dementia. This is manifested by his loss of executive control and garbled speech. Dad, Fred, Sr. died with dementia, not further specified. No therapy exists, so Trump will continue to mentally deconstruct. Peter, MD, Portland Maine
I watch most of the MSNBC lineup but the moment a host introduces a reporter from WaPo or NYT or Politico or Axios I’m out. Don’t trust any of them. Which is why my favorites among MSNBC anchors are Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Joy Ann Reid, Lawrence O’Donnell and most of Morning Joe. None of them compromises, or does only when forced to it seems, but I stay far away from the Andrea Mitchells and Katy Turs because I don’t give a rat’s ass about whatever upsets the MAGA crowd on any given day.
And when are we going to ask Andrea Mitchell to retire? She's watching past her expiration date. I caught her on TV the other day and she literally kept making the same statement or asked the same question during her entire spot. Give it a rest. Retire! Go home and relax. PLEASE!! and don't get me started on Tur(d)
Correction: she's way past her expiration date
For fuck’s sake. The corporate media does 💯 % not belief this is an act. They are complicit in his crimes and they care only about money. And you, Herr Waldman, can fuck all the way off for this apologist bullshit!
How on earth can the press justify the hatchet job they did on Biden because of his age if they do exactly the same thing to Trump? Of course they would lose what little credibility they have left, so it's all about not losing their audience.
The author is skipping the notion that they would not mind a Trump win, as journalists, as it would guarantee years of non-boring politics. It's not like they like writing about tax rates.
But, more than his win being useful, it would be TERRIBLE if the race itself were boring. If they piled onto Trump, the already-leaning odds might become a rout, and October would be boring stories about inevitability.
I don't think they really want Trump to win, they're humans and Americans; but above all, they would love a very, very close race, and ongoing drama into 2025 because of THAT.
Trump is more insane than the mad king George the Third. The distinguishing factor is however that George the Third actually accomplished many things. Trump accomplished nothing during his four years in office. But for enriching himself.
It's pretty dearranged for the orange cockroach to a state that schools are performing secret operations on children without parental consent.
It's chilling to think how this fatass would act after a couple years in the White House. The orange Hitler would be feared just like Adolf Hitler was feared. Trump would be as nutty as King George III.
All the while the elite, corporate media has forgot all about ethics and excellence in journalism. They are a disgrace to a democracy.
I would think the media doesn't report it because trump voters are so volatile that they will simply ignore that media source – and the media can't afford to lose readers. The editors know this, certainly. They will not kill their golden goose.
The "press" was, is, and will be critical of any category of statement or action that Harris or Biden have ever took or will take. This framework that the OP invented is only valid if described as Democrat vs Republican, where all actions by a Democrat are viewed with a critical eye.
Quite a meaningless essay/post. Reporters are not A"i" software to characterize them your way. Whatever the actual reason - I see 2 and it could be both - the detrimental, despicable and unacceptable role they and their gangs play in our society neeeds to be both exposed and rejected by the citizenry.
The longer it goes on, the more “papers” they sell
No. This is not normal age-related cognitive decline. This is straight up dementia. It is a common disease but it is not the norm.
Trump’s been in “ mental” decline for at least 20 years. No real change in the
last two decades. But he’s too old for the job, as was Biden.