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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeth Abramson: Sept. 2016 Christopher Steele briefed NYT, WA Post, CNN,
Yahoo! and the New Yorker on his Russia research -- and none of the outlets did anything.
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triron
(22,011 posts)MSM was complicit
thbobby
(1,474 posts)With MSM, ALWAYS follow the money - or ratings. Ratings is money. MSM wanted to trash Clinton and spare trump because a close election would mean higher ratings. Bashing Clinton meant higher ratings. Investigating the Steele Dossier would have required work on research for them. Would have made Trump less likely to be close in election. More work and less ratings. Our MSM.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)thbobby
(1,474 posts)do you mean New York Times, Washington Post, etc? If so, I agree they are much better.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)might be the NYTimes, because they published a story in October that they had been fed to them by some NY FBI sources, that said it was all a nothing-burger.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)waiting for the moron to speak at a rally during the campaign. I blame them for not focusing on the issues. I also blame social media (for allowing Russian bots, trolls, $$$$$$), Putin, misogynists, and the cherry on the top...COMEY! And I blame Americans for believing right wing BS propaganda radio and Fux Ruse too.
And has anything changed to stop the GOP and donors $$$$$$? Has anything been done to stop future Russian Interference in our soon approaching midterms? NO!
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)and blame Reagan for eliminating the Fairness Doctrine and blame Clinton for the Telecommunications Act. Be fair about it. When news production in the media became profit-centered, then news becomes entertainment and editors vie for the biggest audiences by tailoring their content to desired demographics consistent with their sponsors' marketing plans. All feedback loops have monetary values. All news media now engages in their own profit-driven formulas. This is what we get: a breathless engagement with candidate Trumpy because he's entertaining and funny and irreverent and loud. Trumpy was the perfect candidate for the media and for 60 million people, many of whom no longer understand the workings of their own government partly because there is no national desire to educate the public about how their government works. So we get a person who is NOT interested in knowing what the Bill of Rights is because a huge swath of the nation has no idea what the Bill of Rights is and doesn't care whether the president knows.
It's bad, folks.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)words coming out of my mouth for too, too long. My family is 4 generations of Dems and this is the sort of thing that we discuss at family dinners. The only thing that I would change in your post is "It's bad folks". I think "It's extremely bad folks" is appropriate.
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)They chose the easy story of Clinton's underwhelming email controversy rather than do the hard work chasing down this story.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)I would suspect all our MSM are scared to death of backlash from the Republican money and media machinery along with a Repug-controlled Congress, and scared of being labeled "liberal-friendly".
If any one of them had crashed the election, they knew they could be held liable for any errors in the dossier and their board of directors (probably loaded with Republicans) would roll many heads.
Follow the power and follow the money. The coup of the plutocrats is nearly complete.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Damn, I trusted them to be different and chase hard stories.
Botany
(70,567 posts)God damn they all to hell. I saw this stuff in 2004 w/ w bush too.