Posted on 08/21/2016 7:26:23 AM PDT by upchuck
Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it.
The frenzy to bury Trump is not limited to the Clinton campaign and the Obama White House. They are working hand-in-hand with what was considered the cream of the nation’s news organizations.
The shameful display of naked partisanship by the elite media is unlike anything seen in modern America.
The largest broadcast networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — and major newspapers like The New York Times and Washington Post have jettisoned all pretense of fair play. Their fierce determination to keep Trump out of the Oval Office has no precedent.
Indeed, no foreign enemy, no terror group, no native criminal gang, suffers the daily beating that Trump does. The mad mullahs of Iran, who call America the Great Satan and vow to wipe Israel off the map, are treated gently by comparison.
By torching its remaining credibility in service of Clinton, the mainstream media’s reputations will likely never recover, nor will the standards. No future producer, editor, reporter or anchor can be expected to meet a test of fairness when that standard has been trashed in such willful and blatant fashion.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Walter Duranty - if the Times had any integrity they would have given back that ‘prize’ years ago/
“If Trump breaks their stranglehold, it will be a new era in American journalism.”
It is much easier to deceive people than to convince them that they have been deceived.
Millions of people will forever lack the moral courage to face the fact that the media have played them for chumps.
“Inconceivable!” they will cry. “I’m not stupid. If they were lying to me, I would have caught them before this.”
And that’s a major stumbling block. When you tell a libtard that the media have lied constantly for the past six decades, you are saying to them, whether you intend it or not, “Excuse me, sir. I just wanted to point out that you are a dumbass.”
Many people will never have the backbone to confront the possibility.
I always try to do it first thing in the morning; that way, the worst thing that is going to happen to me on a given day has already happened.
You're not here to support the site, but, rather, are subtly working against it, and against the Republican candidate.
Your disruption of this thread is a good example. Your very first comment flew in the face of reality:
Ben Ficklin wrote: The problem with this article and replies on the thread is that the media has also been critical of Clinton.
No, they HAVEN'T. This is a falsehood designed to provide cover for the Media - and YOU wrote it.
All the Media needs to do with Hillary is bark every five minutes, or every time she opens her mouth: "But you're a criminal, Hillary! Comey said he would recommend prosecution of anyone else who did what you did."
Instead, the dogs are not barking, and you trot out "the media has also been critical of Clinton."
Go peddle your defeatism and vreditelstvo elsewhere, Ficklin.
Every comment of yours on this thread has been to change the subject away from the Media.
I have a really good memory, and when I'm reading a "news article" that dropped a fact that was in another article on the same thing, I begin to wonder why.
The only articles that showed what was going on were being posted here on FR.
Too bad that Google is trying successfully to direct traffic away from FR.
“Too bad that Google is trying successfully to direct traffic away from FR.”
How are they doing that?
No, that is not it at all. The problem is that you don't like my opinion. You hate my opinion. You want me to fall in with your opinion and you are mad and obnoxious because I won't.
Trump's biggest threat is not the media, it is the fact that many republicans are not going to support him.
Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties
By susanne craig - AUG. 20, 2016
David W. Chen contributed reporting, and Susan C. Beachy contributed research.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html
Looks like we got a new Hillary @sslamprey identified, boys!
All in against Trump, but no mention of Hillary's money-laundering Foundation at all by this susanne craig.
No time for susanne to investigate Hillary's felonies, money-laundering or influence-peddling from the Secretary of State's orifice. Nope, it's "GET TRUMP!" all day, every day at Hillary's New York Times SuperPAC.
BTW - susanne is one ugly Gomer:
Go find a NeverTrump "Republican" cryptoDemocrat thread to peddle your defeatism on, Ficklin.
I don't believe that the fake Republicans are a problem. If they're successful, they're DONE as a party. :)
Nope, the Media has gone ALL IN - and they're going to get themselves to the point where they're at now - their junk is toilet paper.
I didn't bother to read much of that susanne craig hitpiece that I posted a link to.
I kind of laughed that her "efforts" made some pretty toilet paper.
This is deliberate.
The Slimes liars can knock themselves out. They’d have to tell me something true to get my attention, and that’s the one thing they cannot do.
“No, that is not it at all. The problem is that you don’t like my opinion. You hate my opinion. You want me to fall in with your opinion and you are mad and obnoxious because I won’t.”
I’ll cop to that. I don’t like your opinion because you are wrong. I hate your opinion because it is evil. I’d like to see you pull your head out and reject error. I’m mad and obnoxious because...well, for a lot of reasons, but in part because you are here talking harmful nonsense.
Your failure to draw necessary conclusions does not constitute either a rebuttal or a valid foundation for an opinion.
LOL! Somebody tagged the Hillary @sslamprey susanne craig on her Twitter page for not allowing comments on the article on the NY Times website. :)
“for not allowing comments on the article”
Irredeemably corrupt, depraved, craven.
How can such moral lepers have represented themselves as normal people for so long?
I turned it off, didn't want to ruin my dinner...it was that sickening.
Rupert Morlock and his two anti-Trump leftist sons are slowly tightening the screws day-by-day...and soon Hannity and Judge Jeanine will be the last conservatives standing as we watch with dismay some other usually right-of-center Fox pundits starting to pull their punches, one-by-one.
Leni
I’ve turned FNC off; by by Fox News.
Oops, typos.
It’s bye bye Fox News.
If I was running the Trump campaign, I would flood the airwaves with this Ad.
If you liked the last 8 years of Obama, you will love the next 4 under Hillary. If you like Obamacare you will love Hillarycare even more. It will get much more expensive! National debt will reach $32 Trillion, Middle class jobs will shrink by another 10 million, more millions will be added to the food stamps program. Middle-east disaster will extend to Europe and America. And African-Americans will become even more poor and more will be in prison.
That’s very good.
Right you are, Tex...thanks for the inspiration !
BYE, BYE, FOX NEWS
Pack up all your cares and woe
Off you go, singin' low
Bye, bye, Fox News
Trump will lay in wait for thee
Sugar's sweet...but NOT so he
Hah, hah, hah, hah
Tee hee, tee hee
Bye, bye, Fox News
Folks love Trump and, yes, we understand him
Too bad you always try to underhand him
Fly away...bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye, bye, Fox News
You like to say that Trump's a clown and racist
But he'll just get right back into your face-ist
Now every night from six to ten
We'll flick our click to CNN (well, maybe...LOL)
Farewell, adios, bye, bye, adieu
Including Kurtz, and Meg...and Stirewalt, too
Hah, hah, hah, hah
So long, Fox News ...bye, bye !
Leni
Say hello to Fox Business. Interviews aren’t two minute infomercials. They allow guests to answer questions and actually have a conversation. Lou Hobbs is the BEST!
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