Does the Media Deserve to Be Respected and Believed?

Townhall.com ^ | January 25, 2019 | Michael Barone

[AFreeBird]

No and No!

[Vigilanteman]

Respect and Credibility must both be EARNED. The media earned exactly the opposite.

They have a long and sorry history of earning exactly the opposite too.

[rawcatslyentist]

“the news media are a bunch of leftist liars who are dying to get the president, and they’re willing to lie to do it.” ~Toobin

[Navy Patriot]

Respect and Credibility must both be EARNED.

Exactly, there is no other way.

[Olog-hai]

Sure, like Christine Blasey Ford “deserves to be believed”.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Ministry of Propaganda has been lying to us for years.

[Howie66]

Nope.

[LibWhacker]

When their sole mission in life is not to truthfully report the news, but to lie nonstop and instill hatred in the electorate for Republicans so that they can destroy freedom itself and the nation they despise? C’mon, is that a serious question?

[bagman]

Yes, you are right. The behavior that I find so repulsive is their collective inability to conduct any introspection and inability to admit that biases may in any way affect their reporting.

[Justa]

“American libel law requires actual malice, or reckless disregard of facts, by the media before a public figure can collect. But the students were not public figures as they gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to meet their bus, and the ready availability of exonerating videotape suggests that the first accusatory stories were rushed into print with reckless disregard of available facts. I sure wouldn’t want to defend them before a Kentucky jury.”

Could this be the source of all the journalist layoffs this week? Maybe so.

[SMARTY]

Right

To overlook their crimes and go on like nothing happened? NOT

Unless you don’t mind the MSM covering itself with s*&t-then expecting your esteem

[Fresh Wind]

That’s racist, whatever it represents.

[Bitman]

Could this be the source of all the journalist layoffs this week? Maybe so.

It could be the reason, but the price paid by the boys was very high.

[bkopto]

Is this the behavior of a press that deserves to be respected and believed?

Only someone from Townhall.com would pose such an idiotic question.

[1Old Pro]

Is this the behavior of a press that deserves to be respected and believed?

We're well past respecting the corrupt media, now they need to be prosecuted for libel.

[sit-rep]

If I’m lucky enough to be in the War Room when the balloon goes up I would order several targets in every media outlet across the land. They have been and remain the biggest threat to our country. I solely blame the media for 95% of our problems in the country/world.

[tomkat]

LOL :-))

[gcparent]

Heck you can’t even believe their weather forecasts! They just say stuff to drum up ratings.

[Kaslin]

Exactly

[SMARTY]

If I was as wrong ... as often as the MSM jerks-I would not have a job