the silence from republicans this morning after the 'reveal' is stunning.

[spanone]

as trump was getting on the helicopter this morning, no reporter thought to ask about the 'spy' in his campaign.

not one reporter asked why his lawyer and chief of staff showed up at the gang of 8 meeting.

one asked about harvey weinstein.

why are reporters not hounding nunes in the halls of congress?

no follow up?

c'mon liberal media.

[kentuck]

1. Someone should have asked:

"Mr President, do you still hope to find the spy in your campaign?"

Just to keep the story going and to remind people that he is full of shit.

[dem4decades]

26. How about a simple "Why did your campaign have so many Russian connections? "

[klook]

27. Ha, I like it.

Also to remind him there could still be one or more spies in his orbit.

[jayschool2013]

28. Ha!

Wouldn't that be delicious? The Spy-bot Melanie has replaced Melania in the White House!

[CentralMass]

52. ...

[FM123]

54. Maybe they did the switch during her "kidney" procedure, lol

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

53. FLOTUS is still not holding his hand.

I guess she figures, "You never know where that hand has been."

[malaise]

2. I'll take

because he's not a Democrat for $2,000 Alex

[spanone]

3. Bingo!!!!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

32. The Daily Double!!! ... This politician is the most hated in all the land...

Adamant Bernie Basher: Who is Bernie Sanders?

Bzzz, bzzzz

Alex: Nooo, I'm sorry... Donald "Tiny Hands" tRump... that takes you down to zero... sorry.

[vi5]

4. And yet....

...so many on here still watch. Waiting....hoping....giving them your eyeballs and your attention and your time. In the hopes that they throw us a crumb and then the praise is endless.

[jalan48]

6. It's like a bad marriage. Some have to believe the corporate media really is on the side of

the average American and will do the right thing next time.

[MythosMaster]

11. That was by design

Hillary and her email or never ending clown circus of incompetence....

[LiberalLovinLug]

31. You bet your bottom dollar that if Hillary were President the media would be just as stupid

Egged on by Republicans, and their rival Fox News, they'd be hounding her with email questions, Benghazi questions, and any new invented scandal the the Republicans had come up with by now.

[rainy]

39. That is absolutely the truth!!!

[volstork]

18. I haven't watched national news

since the inauguration. I got up that morning and thought, “Well, they are all going to pretend like all of this is perfectly normal, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to watch it happen.”

[mikeysnot]

30. Yes

I cancelled my cable and cited the Election coverage and net neutrality as reasons for not paying for tv.

I have two tv's that are barely on. PBS cooking shows on Sat and a few WGN Cubs games about it.

[BSdetect]

5. Expect very little from msm and you will not be disappointed.

Most are just not smart.

[Dave Starsky]

9. No, they know exactly what they're doing.

As the old saying goes, when someone's paycheck depends on a person not understanding something, count on them "not understanding" it.

[Achilleaze]

7. repubes are busy cooking up new lies to spew at American citizens

One can be sure...

[iluvtennis]

13. Love this meme.

[DemocracyMouse]

8. Why are US journalists so dumb?

...because most of our professors have been pushed into being adjuncts and can be fired if they are too insistent on rigor from their students. This is another under-reported national crisis, one which affects this country's intellectual core. (And those adjuncts are voiceless in the universities they serve). Adjuncts are also enduring the indignities of sleeping in their cars, going hungry, and doing multiple jobs just to survive. Our best and brightest cannot afford to have a family and thus pass on a critical, thinking culture to a new generation. They are too busy surviving and doing several jobs to stay on campus to help foster an intellectual culture.

So why are US citizens – and journalists – so intellectually lacking? Our education system has been hijacked by the Right Wing business establishment. University presidents and administrator salaries are up, teachers salaries cut in half since 1975. The rise in tuition is due to this "business" approach, just as the cost of healthcare has doubled due to business takeover of medicine.

Personally, I have nothing against entrepreneurial culture and small, for-profit business. Such enterprises are essential for a thriving country. But we had no business ruining the non-profit education and healthcare sectors with the profit motive.

Democrats will win if they articulate "a good ol' fashion" separation of profit and non-profit domains. A for-profit education treats teachers like share-croppers and students like consumers to be coddled, not challenged. And thus these journalists have no roll models for serious debate, serious inquiry and insistent questioning of this flunky Russian puppet.

[jayschool2013]

29. Hey, now.

You calling me dumb?

I get it, though. And your notes about adjuncts are spot on.

[a la izquierda]

36. No kidding.

The US university system is dying a painfully slow death.
I teach LatAm history at the university level and can’t wait to quit my job (at a research uni no less). I hate what it’s become and I want no part of it.

[DemocracyMouse]

38. My heart goes out to you, a la iz. Been there too.

[llmart]

42. Your post and analysis of today's universities is spot on.

It should actually be a thread of its own. Having just retired from a university I can verify that everything you say is true. The business model for running a university is not conducive to teaching critical, independent thinking skills. It's all about the numbers now. Enrollment numbers. Layers upon layers of administrators making tons of money for doing next to nothing. Professors know that they better be graduating every single one of their students, so don't require too much of them. It's appalling and we all pay for the lack of critical thinking skills these graduates have.

[Fullduplexxx]

10. Dems need to start treating the media like the cons do

[ehrnst]

12. I think anyone who asked that would be escorted off the premises

and have their (as well as any of their co-workers) WH press pass seized.

I really think at this point, that would happen.

[gratuitous]

15. Yes, the media fear losing access to people who lie to their faces and despise them

It's a baffling dynamic.

[ehrnst]

19. I know. At this point if I was a WH journalist, I would have to wonder

what I would do.

Not ask the hard questions, keep access and some ability to report what is going on.

or

Ask the hard questions, and fall on my professional sword and hope to go down in history like Archibald Cox.

[gratuitous]

23. Or develop other methods for getting a story

I.F. Stone got ousted from a regular beat to report on the goings-on in Washington, so he charted his own course. When the usual doors were closed in his face, he took to haunting the hearings of low-level subcommittees, poring over transcripts when he couldn't be at a hearing, and cultivating contacts and relationships with bureaucrats at the nameless/faceless level. While his self-published periodical "I.F. Stone's Weekly" never gained huge circulation numbers, he broke any number of stories that had slipped by unnoticed in the mainstream media.

It's a different world nowadays than the 50s, 60s, and 70s, but hard work can still find a niche.

[ehrnst]

24. There isn't a substitute for a WH press pass

But I do acknowledge that there are other ways of getting information.

As long as you don't get fired from your news org to cover their own butts.

[fierywoman]

37. I subscribed to I F Stone's Weekly when I was very young. We need another I F Stone.

[randr]

14. Liberal media fuck

Any media would do!
A chance to hang him by his balls is ignored by all.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

16. LIEGATE! Love that Schiff came up with apt catchphrase, outwitted el gallo in WH

[Gallo: rooster; colloquial-smart ass, jerk]

[NewJeffCT]

17. if their questions are too tough

the journalists are afraid they'll lose access to the Trump clown car

[kacekwl]

33. Access to what ?

Non-answers and lies. Not to mention contempt and abuse from the press witch.

[NewJeffCT]

34. pretty much

Their job is to be there - if they get shut out, they may get fired because they no longer have access.

[Orsino]

20. Do we know that any media were allowed within shouting distance? n/t

[spanone]

21. yes they were....and they asked about NK and harvey weinstein

[Orsino]

22. Sorry, misread the OP.

That's...ineffectual.

[drray23]

25. its another dud like the previous Nune's shenanigans .You would think they would have learned.

After the democratic leaders raised a stink, they had to admit Schiff in the meeting. This probably derailed the entire scheme.

No doubt they were planning to give the info to the white house as well as claiming all sorts of nonsense knowing the DOJ would not be able to refute it publicly since its classified. Having schiff in there torpedoed the whole thing.

[YessirAtsaFact]

35. If our democracy survives the OrangeTurd, we can thank people like Adam Schiff and Ted Lieu

It's mind boggling that the troglodytes can't see the treason.

[True Blue American]

44. The WH is demanding

A transcript of the proceedings.

You can bet the DOJ gave them as little info as they could. These guys are not dummies. They have worked for years to expose smarter men than Trump.

Rudyis just a senile old man. Even his firm said he did little work in the last 10 years. They just wanted his name. That name is now soiled goods.

[C Moon]

40. That's because he warned them he'd cut them off if they reported any bad news about him.

Our media is owned by money.

[Hortensis]

41. One, the media isn't "liberal"-friendly. Two, are you guys crazy?

Blind? Investigative journalism has never been better. We're flooded with so much information we can't follow it all, and that's entirely due to the fourth estate.

Mueller investigation wouldn't exist without media revelations, and they aren't talking. The FBI hid Russian involvement with Trump all through 2015-2016 and certainly wouldn't be revealing all this to the citizenry in 2017-2018.

We ONLY know anything because of journalists. Yes, some big ones are clearly partly corrupted, including the NYT, but not all are and big information is coming out in spite of it anyway.

Now, WHERE did this trumpster-level negativism about the fourth estate come from?

WHO have enormous interests in demoralizing and creating fake disillusion toward the media in Democrats?

Put down the Kool-Aid.

[True Blue American]

46. I agree

Have gone way past the MSM. Various sources are there for all. Why waste time on the crap repeated over and over, hour after hour!

I just learned about the Don Jr. meeting right here!

[Hortensis]

47. :) Breaking out of cable is the best way of identifying

the themes they hit hour after hour -- and especially noting what isn't being talked about. Because elsewhere it is.

[LittleGirl]

43. What I want to know is

Why is it that IQ45 can't have a press conference?

He's always answering questions with the roar of a helicopter in the background. He's always yelling the answers!

Why is the media allowing this? Why can't they say, shut that engine off and have a proper press conference for crying out loud.

I can't stand the man but for the love of Pete, we must demand that we are given proper protocol for information to the masses from the POTUS.

[spanone]

45. this way he controls everything. he can walk away when he doesn't like a question.

he can feign that he can't hear the question.

he controls it all.

the media = lap dogs

[LittleGirl]

50. He really is a walking

reality star isn't he?
A control freak, must see himself on the news constantly.

The media needs to wise up.

[Hortensis]

48. Hey, if they won't do it, why not do it yourself?

Just stop allowing it. Be the change you want to see.

[LittleGirl]

49. Really? How?

I don't have press credentials but if you mean, shout it out on Twitter to whoever will listen, yes. I can do that.
In about a month.
I'm moving countries right now and my time is focused on packing and selling the house.

I can't listen to the man's voice. I read the highlights from the press like a normal person because he infuriates me!

[Anon-C]

51. How about a general boycott of the media?

Think that may do some good?