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Commentary: The unbearable smugness of the press
CBS News ^ | November 10,2016 | BRIAN SNYDER

Posted on 11/10/2016 5:48:05 AM PST by Hojczyk

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To: Hojczyk

A moment of clarity, it won’t last long. The press will be crawling all over Trump’s every move, even gesture, like hornets.


41 posted on 11/10/2016 8:35:54 AM PST by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Travis McGee

Those people don’t even scratch the surface of all the lying Presstitutes in this country. Gonna need a bigger picture.


42 posted on 11/10/2016 9:23:24 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Dear CBS “News,”

It’s going to be a very long time before I’m over your infamous “Just because we faked the evidence, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen” incident.

The recent collusion of members of the press with the DNC against both Bernie Sandars AND republican candidates doesn’t make me any more likely to reconsider my belief that the American media is the least bit trustworthy.

I have no problems with any media outlet opining, as long as it’s labeled as opinion. But I’ve found that rigged debates and biased reporting makes me distrust the mass media.

Mark


43 posted on 11/10/2016 11:04:37 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Hojczyk; GreyFriar; Liz; The Mayor; nutmeg
Excellent article!!! Worth reading in its entirety.

You’d think that Trump’s victory – the one we all discounted too far in advance – would lead to a certain newfound humility in the political press. But of course that’s not how it works. To us, speaking broadly, our diagnosis was still basically correct. The demons were just stronger than we realized.

This is all a “whitelash,” you see. Trump voters are racist and sexist, so there must be more racists and sexists than we realized. Tuesday night’s outcome was not a logic-driven rejection of a deeply flawed candidate named Clinton; no, it was a primal scream against fairness, equality, and progress. Let the new tantrums commence!

Trump's victory marks seismic shift in America That’s the fantasy, the idea that if we mock them enough, call them racist enough, they’ll eventually shut up and get in line.

Journalists increasingly don’t even believe in the possibility of reasoned disagreement, and as such ascribe cynical motives to those who think about things a different way.

Ping!

44 posted on 11/10/2016 3:16:18 PM PST by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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To: uncitizen
This year people turned en masse to bloggers, citizen journalists, youtubers, etc because they know the truth when they hear it and they know coordinated nonsensical propagandist BS is all they were getting from the leftists in the LSM.

You're right. No one trusts these people any more... We're not even paying attention to their hate like we use to... MSM hate rants toward us are like the screeching of a step mother who hates us ... one who use to hurt us but now is just noise ... background noise. We've figured out the problem it's her - she's the problem - not us. That's how we feel about the haters in the press. They try hurt us - try too hard to demean us - and we've turned them off. I don't know anyone who trust them...

45 posted on 11/10/2016 7:50:59 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrats were played for fools by their own political operatives! That's how they were blindsided)
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Bump


46 posted on 11/11/2016 1:39:24 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: GOPJ

Great analogy. That’s exactly how it is. It’s amazing how we all just turned them off enmasse and now they’re going down so fast. It’s wonderful.


47 posted on 11/11/2016 4:41:41 AM PST by uncitizen (Ding Dong The LSM is Dead!)
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To: uncitizen

We not only ‘turn them off’ we invite friends in to see the wicket step-mother start screaming when we say we got an “A” on a math test... (watch her scream about our haircut or shoes...)

The press deserves what’s happening to them...


48 posted on 11/13/2016 11:17:31 AM PST by GOPJ ( Trump took 39%+ Hispanics in FL, large numbers of Cubans, and more than 30% Hispanics nationally-LS)
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