CNN bullshitting again.

[FoxNewsSucks]

Turned on the TV machine, and their chyron was stating "GOP has support" to seat tRump's judge.

No, they do NOT have the support to to that, Moscow Mitch McChinless has enough dirt on GOP senators to force them to vote. That's not the same thing.

Partisan hack votes ? public support.

[Sherman A1]

1. Turn it off

And it’s no problem

[FoxNewsSucks]

7. I have a tv at my desk,

and it's usually muted while I listen to podcasts. Sometimes I look over and there is something worth seeing. This was wrongly worded.

BTW, I think it does matter, because that's how so many people see the corporate news. Muted, on a public TV. So having such a phrase on the screen for several minutes gives the wrong impression to someone who possibly doesn't read or watch anything else.

[Sherman A1]

9. I disagree

I do not believe the most people see the corporate news muted on a public TV. I suspect far too many are watching in will full volume in the confines of their own home. In either case the absolute best solution is to turn off the 24/7 breaking noise infotainment and give them no mind. Their job is to fill airtime between ads for drugs we never knew we needed not to report information in a timely, fair or accurate manner.

[FoxNewsSucks]

11. I didn't say "most people",

I said many. I agree that all three corporate channels are part of the problem.

But the people you describe, home with the volume cranked up, are just watching what they already agree with and getting it reinforce. What I think is also a problem, although a more subtle and insidious one, are the people who do not watch news, but see it in public places. Restaurants, the gym, hotel lobbies and breakfast rooms, waiting rooms etc. And I do change the channel in those places whenever I can.

People who read DU know exactly what they're seeing on corporate news channels. Most people out in public do not. The barrage goes straight to their subconscious. That's why Fox studied MTV when they started up their news channel. They want to catch attention, and have influence.

One example is the way Fox has of putting a D after republicon politicians' names when they don't toe the party line.

[Sherman A1]

12. My mistake

you did say "many". And I disagree with that as well.

[FoxNewsSucks]

14. no problem, but when it's safe to travel again,

if we are still allowed to in Gilead, stop at a few truck stops. McDonalds and other fast food crapholes. Corporate chains like that put tv's in public, and force them to be on Fox "news" 24/7. Store employees won't change it even when customers ask.

Some do fall in the "home and turned up" category that you mentioned, such as the breakfast crowds of seniors at McD, and the truckers in the Flying J lounges. But it's not just them.

I do think people see it, and are subconsciously influenced. That's why they do it.

[brush]

2. Newsflash: If he has the votes he has the support. It's repug hypocrisy and it's not CNN's fault...

to report it.

[FoxNewsSucks]

6. Their choice of phrasing is their fault.

It implies "public support", as in a majority of Americans. I don't think that is the case.

[brush]

8. Well, you might see it that way but most know exactly what that means. He has the votes lined up.

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[obnoxiousdrunk]

13. +1. n/t

[Amishman]

3. With a deeply and almost evenly divided country everything and nothing has support

If you consider having support to be a strong majority (3/4ths or so), then next to nothing has public support.

If you are talking about 40-50%, then tons of horrible ideas have support.

We are so depressingly divided

[brooklynite]

4. Provide the evidence...

Why would Republicans who played fast a loose with the rules before Trump oppose a quick SC vote now?

[pansypoo53219]

5. WHERE IS OUR FUCKING BLUE DRESS COVERAGE??? how many blue dresses do they need.

rating whores.

[lame54]

10. It's exactly the same thing

[Rice4VP]

15. I turned off the TV because I got

tired of them showing clips of stuff that Trump said yesterday at his rally or stuff that Repugnants said in 2016 and 2018.

Instead, I watch a FB live event with Kamala talking to a group of Black men in Detroit. Why can’t CNN and MSNBC cover this stuff instead? So sick of hearing about Trump

[FoxNewsSucks]

16. Yeah, that's the truth.

They don't cover it because it's not what their corporate owners want Americans to know about.

Just like the near-complete lack of coverage of net neutrality, the TPP or any of the real problems with the keystone pipeline. They spent their time showing an empty podium "awaiting tRump" instead of covering actual Sanders or Clinton events. Or news.