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If the government funding of the media ends, might the media return to keeping an eye on the government for the people?

After all, the new media is certainly filling the role of "Government Watch Dog" for the American people.

1 posted on 04/23/2025 7:15:59 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: Racketeer

CNN thinks you are all freaks.


2 posted on 04/23/2025 7:18:48 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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So are the CNN panelists simply lying their way through this, knowing their coverage is completely one sided and most often false?

Or do they actually believe they tell the truth and are objective?

If the second is true it’s hard to believe anyone could be that clueless.


3 posted on 04/23/2025 7:20:24 AM PDT by packagingguy
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If I had any advice for 60 Minutes or anybody else, it would be: just cover the news and try to be fair about it and stop putting your finger on the scale, especially during campaigns."

Fair coverage would require recognition of facts as they are. Yet these college graduates can't interpret events in any other terms than how they have been conditioned. This is why they can lie in all honesty. They can't see any other way.

6 posted on 04/23/2025 7:26:26 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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How is the media polling with the people compared to Trump?

I bet the media doesn’t want to answer that one.


7 posted on 04/23/2025 7:27:00 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: Racketeer

how are the cnn ratings?

people are not buying what they are selling

if people would cancel their cable tv and demand a la carte programming

cnn would implode tomorrow

half of their revenue is from cable subscribers fees

meaning even if you dont watch cnn

you are funding them


8 posted on 04/23/2025 7:32:06 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Racketeer

There’s a reason we’ve had Free Republic for close to FOUR decades now. [we should all keep it running, too!]


9 posted on 04/23/2025 7:32:35 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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Scott Jennings walking away from every CNN panel he participates in...


10 posted on 04/23/2025 7:34:31 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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You cannot hate the DNC l-controlled corporate media enough. They are Marxist idealogues and would write positive stories of deplorable being burned in concentration camp ovens.


11 posted on 04/23/2025 7:36:18 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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people are starved for information that they think they can trust

If you cannot trust it, it is not information.

12 posted on 04/23/2025 7:44:42 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Even he has to go 10 against 1 and they still claim to be unbiased.


14 posted on 04/23/2025 7:51:29 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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