Why do the networks continue to broadcast the lies and filth?

[kentuck]

Why not just ignore it?

What value is it. None. It does nothing but harm our people and our country.

Broadcast the information that the people need to survive, not the propaganda to promote the next election.

Shut it down.

There is no rule or requirement that you must be there to report every utterance of an idiot and a psychopath.

Move the cameras out.

[Ohiogal]

1. This.

There is no rule or requirement that you must be there to report every utterance of an idiot and a psychopath.

[dem4decades]

2. I just stopped watching. I play saved Conan's and Trevor Noah instead

I'll watch a wrap up where they report the lies, if i don't get involved in something else. MSNBC is losing their audience. Another thing Trump touched and killed, MSNBC ratings, if it hasn't happened yet wait for the lag, just like the virus.

[tavernier]

3. Behold a pale fox

And his name is Rupert Murdoch

[onenote]

4. There also is no rule that people have to watch.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

5. What can we do to put pressure on the networks?

With radical right radio personalities it took a combination of showing advertisers what they were sponsoring (usually by sending a recording) and signing a petition threatening to boycott the company's products. Starving the beast works.

The only comparable action I can see happening with CNN, MSNBC and the rest is pointing out that they are providing Fat Donnie with free prime time rallies where they lose ad revenue and become associated with spreading his lies, or at least losing their reputation as a news organization. Let them know Trump has turned the pressers into a reality show with the only real information being presented by the doctors. At the very least they could edit out the parts where either Trump or any person who starts their presentation with obsequious praise and fealty to the king are talking.

[hangaleft]

6. Because people (including some... many? DUers) watch

I asked in another thread Why do you watch? I only got two answers (lotsa people watching!) and it was very disappointing.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. $$

Just as people crane their necks on the hwy to see an accident, people evidently want to see this train wreck. I will not watch one second of that OrangeAnus.

[Beringia]

8. Profit motive

They are also all probably friends of friends of friends in their circles.