Reply #38: part of the problem is the TYPE of media we have [View All]

Other than Fox (which is totally in the tank for the RNC), ALL the other media outlets just chase the hype & glitz, rather than the actual story.. They have HOURS of dead air to fill, and lots of salaries to pay.

Few remember this, but when CNN started out, they would just AIR stuff...stuff from all over the world..mostly without commentary, since they HAD NO "commentators".. They had news people who had been hired away from the big-three at that time.. There were no "shows"...no "themes"..just raw news footage from all over the world. We were expected to tune in, at any time of the day or night and see something we had not seen before, watch it, and decide for ourselves what to make of it.

Fast forward to now, and we have nothing even remotely resembling "news".. we have "People/TMZ/InsideEdition/ET-political style"...masquerading as "news"..

Just because people have microphones & are sitting at a desk, they are not necessarily showing us the news..

Bernie Shaw saw the handwriting on the wall...and QUIT.

politicians know how to "use" the media we have, and the media we have knows how to "use" the pols. It's a little dance they do..

The media may have seemed harder on HRC at the beginning, but that was because they all "knew" she would win, and they needed to tweak her a bit, so they "looked" impartial.....But even with the tweaking, for MONTHS she was treated as the Queen Bee, heiress to the throne.

Once she stumbled, though, they saw an opportunity for what they love the most CONFLICT..and they were off & running..

Obama messed up their plan by running the table (and 12-in-a-row)...now they either had to eviscerate her and praise only him..or they could keep playing the "game"..the game being "she's close...she could still do it"..

Had they run with the math every day for a month, people would have "gotten it"..but then they would have also tuned out, and found something else to do, other than tune in to see what happened today on the campaign trail..