Ok. When does the media finally admit they helped a hostile foreign government interfere in the 2016

[boston bean]

Presidential election and get Trump elected??

And in doing so ignored the most important national security event of the decade?

Well because of her emails.

They were insatiable with their reporting of stolen information obtained via a foreign intel agency.

This s in no way comparable to the pentagon papers.

[Achilleaze]

1. Corporate media has shamed itself for all time

and will never admit to their cowardly and twisted bothsiderism complicity in screwing over American democracy.

[FakeNoose]

26. I believe Rachel Maddow should call them out

Unfortunately it would probably get her fired, so it would probably never happen. It's going to take a strong liberal voice with unquestioned motives (and brass balls) to call these media executives out. On second thought, maybe it's something PBO should handle.

[Va Lefty]

2. Never

[thucythucy]

3. When they can turn a profit

by doing so.

[sharedvalues]

6. Yes, but let's keep in mind who is profit seeking: the executives

Key dynamics in the media industry:
The executives who run the show are largely conservative and almost all are focused on profit over truth.
The journalists typically care more about truth but have been brainwashed into “both sides” by the rightwing media propaganda machine.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. And they are STILL aiding and abetting that power

by continuing their "both sides" bullshit.

[triron]

14. I think you got that right.

Almost all of them. Except Rachel, Nicole, Ari and a few others.

[sharedvalues]

5. Hugest political scandal in US history, bar none

The analogy to the Pentagon Papers is that Mueller is like Ellsberg, both revealing the truth. And Putin, Assange, Wikileaks, Stone, Bannon, and Trump are the liars who are selling out America, as did Nixon and guys like Macnamara.

[boston bean]

8. The analogy I have heard from the media is that the information from wiki leaks was like the

Pentagon papers and as they did then they did now.

That analogy is a steaming pile of bullshit.

[sharedvalues]

13. Wikileaks releases are more like Pearl Harbor

Except the Russian attack was laundered through Wikileaks and hidden, instead of blowing up battleships in Hawaii.

It is an absolute treasonous DISGRACE that Republicans are pretending the Russians are their friends.

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[UpInArms]

7. Media consolidation has destroyed it

Yes, I know it only goes to 2013 ...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. GOPer defanged FTC, FCC, etc.

Reaganites started the attacks on regulation. Agencies created for consumer benefit were turned around in their mission to facilitate what conglomerates wanted.

[UpInArms]

17. Do you remember when Michael Powell

Son of Colin Powell was running the FCC

his remark was “I have no sense of public service.”

😔

https://fair.org/home/undoing-michael-powells-mischief-at-the-fcc-2/comment-page-1/

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. prototypical GOPer

His views are straight out of the 'free market' book of lies. The mythical self-regulating free market works only if all consumers are fully informed, presumably by magic. One need look no further than the tobacco industry to see how consumers cannot become fully informed in the face of concentrated power, greed, and wealth, and in fact are deliberately misinformed in the quest to further concentrate same.

Consumers must rely on the power they wield collectively through government because individually we are overwhelmed by large business. Deregulation should be done only where the particular regulation is found to be worse than its absence. Unregulated business leads to the barbarianism of the beginning of the Industrial Age.

Multi-national corporations are not elected to govern, yet they have the power to alter government. If society is to be shaped for people, then the people must constrain the ravenous beast of their own industry.

[UpInArms]

19. You should be a published columnist

I hope, at the very least, you are submitting letters to your local newspaper’s editor.

Thank you.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. thank you

Thanks for the kind words. I'm just glad it was semi-coherent.

My local newspaper was taken over before the infamous (non-) election. Its Editorial after election day was nothing but gushing praise for Trump and anger over the "attempt to demonize a good man". That resulted in my canceling a subscription that had run for about 40 years. It went from local news to RW advocacy in short order.

[UpInArms]

25. I am sorry about your local paper

I still think you should write and submit to anything that is near you

[Boomerproud]

20. K&R!

Your comment about trusting the free market to regulate itself with no oversight was brilliant. That should be the argument made when anyone says they hate ALL government. I want corporate greed and bad government both out of my life

[Hermit-The-Prog]

23. "corporate greed and bad government" -- GOP

The GOP has been working for the billionaire class, and growing it, since at least Reagan. The GOP stoke fear and anger to convince millions to vote against their own interests, then use the power of government to do the bidding of corporations instead of citizens. That's fascism.

[akraven]

10. 2 words.

Rupert Murdoch.

[unitedwethrive]

11. The first agency to actually admit this, and promise to do better, will get a boost

in public support. I think it will happen, but not until all of the repub crimes come to light.

[JHB]

12. Never. They may go so far as "mistakes were made", like they always do...

...but it won't be so far that they'd have to do something different. They'll fall back into their comfortable patterns in jig time. Again.

They won't change until somehow there is a housecleaning.

[sarcasmo]

16. Zucker did a long time ago, when he admitted how much money CNN made off the Trump campaign.

[mcar]

21. I follow some on Twitter

They get so defensive when it's brought up. They will never do any self-reflection.

[JI7]

24. when they admit their role in the Iraq War and just all of Bush's disasters

and helping W Bush get into office both times.

[c-rational]

27. Excellent post and great comments. I recall Moonves saying it may not be great for the country

but is good for the corporation. It will only stop when the use of our public airwaves are regulated to prevent its use for spreading propaganda. People often do things when working for a corporation that they would never do as an individual, and I believe one of our biggest legal flaws is equating an individual and a corporation. In speaking with the local gardener/philosopher, he said the last stage of capitalism is State Monopoly Capitalism where the role of government is to protect the corporation. I hope we are not there and may still rein in corporate powers and the public at large finally understands the 'market' is not free but needs to be regulated for a just society to exist.

[FakeNoose]

28. Facebook could have changed all that

Facebook could have turned it around and done something good for American democracy, the Bill of Rights, and the American people. But we all know what happened to Facebook - they're just as rotten as all the other "new" media.