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DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
Tue Jan 14, 2020, 03:10 PM Jan 2020

Media Shut The F Up About The Sanders / Warren Crap - You Already Installed Trump With eMail Garbage

This is about the media not the primaries. I am sick to death of the MANUFACTURED dustup between the good friends Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders. They both want you jerks to leave it alone. The fate of the entire human race is in the balance, and you are making mountain ranges out of moleholes "to drive ratings" I guess. I understand CNN doing it to "get more people to watch the debate" but I turn on MSNBC and they are wasting my time with this bs controversy.

Some people don't feel comfortable voting for a women for president. Many of them are women. It's a fact. Not earth shattering. It's not evil. Many will vote for a women for president just because she is a woman. Reality. Not worth a million media hours of pathetic fake controversy. Bias is a fact of life. Letting Trump destroy the planet is a fact of death. Do your job.

You already attacked Hillary relentlessly and completely ignored the fact that Trump robbed every single person he did business with, and lied like the very worst used car salesman on the planet. His entire operation was based on fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, and literally larceny. You kinda missed that last time around covering Hillary's e-mail 24/7. You also IGNORED Russia hacking the DNC and Podesta and then drove ratings by pontificating endlessly about the released stolen e-mails. Bash Hillary. Bash Hillary. Bash Hillary. It's your fault Trump is defecating all over our White House.

Horserace, horserace, horserace.

The planet is in fire, we are adding trillions to the debt, and all you want to do is create controversy over garbage to drive ratings.

Do your job. Maybe interview a few thousand people who Trump robbed. How about some families who went bankrupt because Republicans destroyed their health care. How much is insulin here / Canada? Other drugs? We are dying because our health care is for profit not for helping people get well.

The list goes on forever of the crap you SHOULD be doing. There is more work for you to do than horserace, horserace, horserace, horserace, and more horserace.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
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Media Shut The F Up About The Sanders / Warren Crap - You Already Installed Trump With eMail Garbage (Original Post) DanieRains Jan 2020 OP
What other stories should not be covered? brooklynite Jan 2020 #1
This Is Being Blown Way Out Of Proportiion DanieRains Jan 2020 #4
disagreement on matters of fact stopdiggin Jan 2020 #7
why does this surprise you? getagrip_already Jan 2020 #2
You can say that but there are numerous threads about it at DU as well. totodeinhere Jan 2020 #3
CNN breathlessly broke this story the day before the CNN debate. Grasswire2 Jan 2020 #5
"Do your job" progressoid Jan 2020 #6
 

brooklynite

(94,821 posts)
1. What other stories should not be covered?
Tue Jan 14, 2020, 03:13 PM
Jan 2020

Where candidates have a disagreement on matters of fact, that's newsworthy.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
4. This Is Being Blown Way Out Of Proportiion
Tue Jan 14, 2020, 03:24 PM
Jan 2020

Sure report it / mention it, but it shouldn't be 40% of all coverage.

My point.

Pathetic.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Undecided
 

stopdiggin

(11,395 posts)
7. disagreement on matters of fact
Tue Jan 14, 2020, 05:08 PM
Jan 2020

that's kind of the point (although I didn't author the OP). But a disagreement on matters of fact doesn't have to be played as A is "attacking" B, or "B campaign going negative!" Report the news, sure. Stirring up needless, and largely inaccurate, controversy (to suit your own purposes)? Maybe not so much.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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getagrip_already

(14,908 posts)
2. why does this surprise you?
Tue Jan 14, 2020, 03:18 PM
Jan 2020

News went away years ago. Now it's analysis, commentary, and opinion.

In short; entertainment. Conflicy breeds ratings. Ratings breed ad dollars.

But this "dustup" is largely being driven by the campaigns. The media is just picking up on it. If the candidates wanted it dropped, it wouldn't be a story.

This isn't coming from bots, or trolls, or fb feeds. It's coming straight from the campaigns.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

totodeinhere

(13,059 posts)
3. You can say that but there are numerous threads about it at DU as well.
Tue Jan 14, 2020, 03:19 PM
Jan 2020

Maybe we all need to shut up about it. And of course your message calls attention to it as well.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
5. CNN breathlessly broke this story the day before the CNN debate.
Tue Jan 14, 2020, 04:26 PM
Jan 2020

Doesn't take too much brain power to see what's going on.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

progressoid

(50,001 posts)
6. "Do your job"
Tue Jan 14, 2020, 05:00 PM
Jan 2020

Sadly, this is their job now. It's all about headlines, muck-raking and making money.

The media is long past honorable reporting.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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