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crimycarny

(1,351 posts)
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 01:41 PM Dec 2020

Note to media: It's a CON! Stop giving airtime to Trump and associates election claims!

Trump is in his element right now, laughing all the way to the bank. All these outrageous claims made by Trump, Rudy, Jenna Ellis, etc. are outrageous for a reason—to get the media to talk about it!!! Trump knows how to get his idiot supporters to believe anything so why is the media allowing themselves to be his microphone. They might as well include links to Trump’s fundraising PACS.

Everyone asks questions like “Why would an attorney like Jenna Ellis, who used to hate Trump, go down into the gutter with him?” MONEY!!! It’s not that hard to figure out!

Until something that could legitimately throw a wrench into the 2020 election happens the media needs to stop being Trump’s stooge. Actually that is giving the media too much credit, they know exactly what’s going on and are playing along for their own selfish reasons—ratings (which also boils down to money). So sick of it.

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Note to media: It's a CON! Stop giving airtime to Trump and associates election claims! (Original Post) crimycarny Dec 2020 OP
It's the laziness-covering Trump's daily outrages is easy dlk Dec 2020 #1
Yes, PLEASE! Just STOP... 3catwoman3 Dec 2020 #2
He is a has-been, impeached, one-term President on the way out the door. NCDem47 Dec 2020 #3
THIS!! crimycarny Dec 2020 #5
They are already hugely complicit in him getting elected... 3catwoman3 Dec 2020 #6
You know almost no one watches cable repetitively, right? Hortensis Dec 2020 #4

dlk

(11,425 posts)
1. It's the laziness-covering Trump's daily outrages is easy
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 01:48 PM
Dec 2020

Quality journalism takes time, money and effort. Too many media outlets see Trump as easy money for themselves. They can turn a profit and not break a sweat.

NCDem47

(2,236 posts)
3. He is a has-been, impeached, one-term President on the way out the door.
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 02:18 PM
Dec 2020

Unless he is indicted, Trump doesn't fit any media definition of newsworthiness...except for maybe bizareness. The MSM twists themselves into pretzels trying to rationalize their coverage of him.

crimycarny

(1,351 posts)
5. THIS!!
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 02:30 PM
Dec 2020

I watched the PBS “American Experience” (season 32) about Joseph McCarthy. The media played a huge role in his popularity by plastering across their newspapers every crazy thing he did. It made for “good copy”. Once his popularity started waning they stopped reporting on him and he slid into obscurity. The media needs to let Trump and his minions slide into obscurity otherwise they are complicit in the damage being wreaked right now.

3catwoman3

(23,812 posts)
6. They are already hugely complicit in him getting elected...
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 02:35 PM
Dec 2020

...due to their non-stop fawning coverage of him starting with that stupid escalator ride. “Breaking news - Trump is walking. Breaking news- Trump is breathing. Breaking news - Trump is spewing bullshit.”

Would that they had just ignored him right from the beginning.

They owe us.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. You know almost no one watches cable repetitively, right?
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 02:22 PM
Dec 2020

This tiny community is NOT a microcosm of the nation.

My husband and I watch one evening news show to see what America in general is seeing -- those who watch any news at all, of course. I recommend it as an alternative to demanding either the news media and/or the political entertainment media censor their programming so you aren't poisoned by it.

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