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It’s Time for the Press to Stop Complaining—And to Start Fighting Back

...because they’re so docile now.

1 posted on 09/03/2018 7:42:41 PM PDT by Magnatron
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“The idea that our work will speak for itself is hopelessly naive. “

On the contrary. Your “work” has spoken, and about ten percent of the country pretend to believe you.

The LugenPresse media are great at claiming they “proclaim truth to power” that they hold rulers to account.

Then they cry like little girls when someone calls them on their lies, their distortions, their false stories, their bias.

The fact is, they are Power, and they help the Swamp avoid accountability.


50 posted on 09/03/2018 9:38:06 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (I am a Putin bot. And I approve this message.)
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If Todd was a real honest, competent and accurate journalist, he wouldn’t be attacked. End of Story!


52 posted on 09/03/2018 9:58:18 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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Savage was talking about chuck Tood tonight. Says chuck never even graduated college. Got where he is through his elite connections. Also he was a former democratic “operative”. The leftist elites are morons and hypocrites and their house is caving in.


54 posted on 09/03/2018 10:21:13 PM PDT by Fla.Deporable
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55 posted on 09/03/2018 10:29:57 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Media destroyed its own credibility with forged photos, forged memos, staged exploding gas tanks, fraudulent town hall questions, journo-list collusion on daily talking points and ‘press’ conferences, and on and on....


56 posted on 09/03/2018 11:05:00 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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>>”But there’s a new kind of campaign underway, one that most of my colleagues and I have never publicly reported on, never fully analyzed, and never fully acknowledged: the campaign to destroy the legitimacy of the American news media.”

One can’t “destroy” what doesn’t exist. You’re not legit, you’re Fake.

>>”Bashing the media for political gain isn’t new, and neither is manipulating the media to support or oppose a cause. These practices are at least as old as the Gutenberg press. But antipathy toward the media right now has risen to a level I’ve never personally experienced before.”

Antipathy toward the _President_ has risen to a level _we’ve_ never experienced before, and you started it -you and the “reporters” at Fox you “admire” - in the first Fox debate.

>>”The closest parallel in recent American history is the hostility to reporters in the segregated South in the 1950s and ’60s.”

Who were Democrats. That’s why they called it “the solid South”, you idiot! Many of whom. by the way, you later held in the highest esteem - Robert Byrd, Al Gore Sr., Bill C’s “mentor” - J. William Fulbright, and others.


59 posted on 09/03/2018 11:13:40 PM PDT by Kent C
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The idiot Chuck Todd again... the gift that keeps on giving.


61 posted on 09/03/2018 11:32:23 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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The only actions the news media could take to "fight back", is to fire most or all of the senior editors and managers, reform the remaining staff, and hire only new journalists that are dedicated to reporting the news factually, instead of doing what they have been doing, pushing a false and partisan narrative.

I won't hold my breath, needless to say.

62 posted on 09/03/2018 11:55:35 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (So, this is the Third World! What happened to the first two?)
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Figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and the trio of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham have attained wealth and power by exploiting the fears of older white people.

No, they have attained wealth and power by providing commentary that reflects easily observable reality, and telling us the parts of the story that don't square with "the narrative," rather than contriving novel ways of "journalistsplaining" up is down, black is white, and traditional morals and values are bigotry.

Unlike most of the media, they have not forgotten their job is to "inform" us, not "correct" us.

You should try it some time, asshole.

63 posted on 09/04/2018 12:16:57 AM PDT by papertyger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pNImbXnIn4&index=24&list=WL&t=427s)
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“the “LEGITIMACY” of the American news media”.
I guess nobody has told this TWIT yet that they are all a bunch BASTARDS!

As in ILLEGITIMATELY pretending to JOURNALISTS.


64 posted on 09/04/2018 12:40:05 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.


67 posted on 09/04/2018 12:54:36 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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It is time for the media to plainly and without commentary report the news. No spin, no opinions, just facts.


73 posted on 09/04/2018 3:05:09 AM PDT by kalee
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Maybe some folks will obtain some of that fake rubber puke that can be tossed down and start getting close to him and asking, “What’s upchuck” then tossing them at his feet.....would love to see his next column after a few incidents like that - would probably have to wipe the slaver off the screen....


75 posted on 09/04/2018 3:55:24 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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Bashing the media for political gain isn’t new, and neither is manipulating the media to support or oppose a cause. These practices are at least as old as the Gutenberg press. But antipathy toward the media right now has risen to a level I’ve never personally experienced before.

Stop lying so boldly, and America will react accordingly.

Continue sowing propaganda and one-sided reporting, and reap the whirlwind.

76 posted on 09/04/2018 4:03:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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Yes, they need to fight back. Their coverage of Trump should be 100% negative instead of 95% negative.


77 posted on 09/04/2018 4:05:59 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "I am Batman!")
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Their fight must consist of showing us how truthful and balanced their reporting is. I can’t wait.


79 posted on 09/04/2018 4:36:47 AM PDT by cymbeline
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that hatred was artificially stoked

Oh, no, Chuckie, it be quite real.


80 posted on 09/04/2018 6:04:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“have attained wealth and power by exploiting the fears of older white people”

As opposed to the dems? “They’re gonna put y’all back in chains” Biden


81 posted on 09/04/2018 6:57:08 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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You don't have to fight back, you just have to print the truth.

That's why the media will not win this battle-they are treating it as a battle of ideology and purpose. It's really just an observation that they're biased.

83 posted on 09/04/2018 2:04:28 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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https://pjmedia.com/trending/car-ramming-attack-on-dallas-fox-affiliate-after-meet-the-press-host-calls-to-fight-back-against-fox-news/


84 posted on 09/05/2018 12:11:10 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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