True or False? The MSM wants TFG back in the WH.

[tenderfoot]

Fear, Anger, Division, & Outrage generate revenue. Who better to insure that happens.

Your thoughts.

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	True - they love that shit. Biden is too normal.
	33 (89%)
	False - they don't want him back, they just want to run occasional puff pieces about Faux News personalities
	4 (11%)
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[BlueJac]

1. They love a shit show!

[Mad_Machine76]

4. They seem to be the onlysones

that still crave the chaos of the Trump years. Most of the rest of us are glad to be back to some semblance of WH normalcy.

[Cha]

29. Democracy Be Damned!

[Mad_Machine76]

2. It's really hard to come to any conclusion

The Press and Trump/GOP seem to have a symbiotic relationship that is destructive for the country. The Press takes it on the chin for Trump but gets their tax cuts when the GOP is in power/Trump/GOP gets substantially more coverage and more positive framing than Democrats/progressives on balance, which helps Trump/GOP maintain and extend their power.

[qazplm135]

3. is there a MSM meeting?

Who's in it?

Are MSNBC and FOX there together?

CNN?

All the newspapers or just some of them?

I'm all for screaming out loud just how bad modern journalism is, the horse race above all reporting, the bothsiderism, the absolute fealty to "balance" above everything else...but no I don't think "the MSM wants Trump back in the WH."

I don't think "they" exist and I don't think "they" care who is in the WH because what they do is the same either way.

[Pantagruel]

5. They always want

a close election to sell ads. Their news coverage works to that end. Their nightmare is a blue wave uncovered and confirmed early in the campaign by polls.

[Yandex]

6. I think they want him to get close but lose

and yell for a couple more years until he finally drops dead. Trump will be 76 in June. Trumps mother and father lived to be 88 and 93 respectfully.

[Aristus]

9. Respectively.

In the order dictated.

You don't have to be respectful of the Trumps. Any of the Trumps. They suck.

Welcome to DU.

[Yandex]

24. I'm sorry?

[Aristus]

26. You stated the years of the deaths of Trump's mother and father.

88 and 93 respectfully.

The term is respectively, meaning "Referring or applying to two or more things previously mentioned in a parallel or sequential way".

Trump and his parents don't merit being referred to respectfully.

[Yandex]

27. Thanks I think

ok

[Aristus]

28. Sorry. That got more confusing than I intended.

I apologize. I should have left it alone.

[Yandex]

30. I didnt realize I had made that mistake

I kno wbtter

[kimbutgar]

7. I don't understand why they want to put him back in when he attacked them, called them

Fake News etc. Didn’t the number of attacks against reporters increase during the assolini administration?

I could see assolini encouraging his supporters to hurt/kill news people that don’t report on him positively. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Putin all ordered his supporters to go after news people. And don’t get me started on what’s happening in China and Hong Kong.

How stupid can they be?

[brush]

8. Nah, they just want the eyeballs/viewers. They don't care who brings them.

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[leftstreet]

13. Just cranking out the rent til Cheney's the frontrunner

That will be a revenue generator

[brush]

14. Hmmmm? She just might try it. A House rep. running for the presidency...

has to be extremely rare, but her bringing in her war crimin...er, ah...father to accompany her in the House on the Jan. 6 anniversary, maybe was calculated not just for visibility but also for lining up old-school republican credibility and support.

[Torchlight]

10. Whatever increases the value of for-profit journalism shares

is all that is desired. Everything else is an afterthought.

Mechanism and format of that increase irrelevant. Earthquakes, plague, conflict, tin-gods, the idolatry of sacred cows... they're all value commodity to the respective boards.

[SKKY]

11. Michelle Wolff said it best when she hosted the WH Correspondent's Dinner...

..."I think you love him."

[Vinca]

12. All they want is ratings. If Biden is in, then Biden is a bad man. If Trump is in, Trump is a bad

man. Doesn't matter who is in the job, the media wants to create friction and have a "story." Apparently, even if it means the end of democracy.

[dwayneb]

16. They will regret that strategy

Why? Because a right-wing dictatorship will likely cast CNN and MSNBC to the curb and promote Fox to be the Fascist mouthpiece. very much like Tass in Russia.

[dwayneb]

15. Vultures feeding at the trough

No doubt that sensationalism sells, always has.

The big turning point was the destruction of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987. The Doctrine although imperfect forced broadcasters and new organizations to give "equal time" to opposing viewpoints.

Once they got rid of that annoying rule, it was free reign to create purely partisan "news" organizations to coddle to one group of viewers or another, creating a dedicated viewership that generated untold billions of dollars of ad revenue.

The more controversial the President the richer they get. And the happier Putin gets - from Obama to Trump it's been nothing but upside for Russia.

[Ohio Joe]

17. Well...

When one considers that THE mainstream media is FOX... I'd say yes.

[tenderfoot]

20. Most of the anti-Kamala Harris crap is coming from the networks that aren't fox

[Ohio Joe]

22. That may be true...

I've not compared the number of center-left articles to right wing articles, so I do not know. I also do not watch a lot of stuff from anywhere if the title looks to be some weird negative of VP Harris. I do read much more than I watch... From a lot of different sources ranging from the far right to the far left and many in-between but I, again, tend to skip over the obvious racist hit pieces.

Regardless... That I put down to plain old racism and not having any bearing on if any particular network wants TFG back in office... I don't see attacking the VP over non-sense as a way to achieve that goal. My point was that people tend to think of any network other than FOX to be 'the mainstream' when the reality is that FOX is the most watched... Like it or not, and I do not... That makes them THE mainstream media. So... Based on that alone, the answer is yes.

[moondust]

18. More train wrecks!

Competent government is too boring. After all, government was created for its entertainment value, right? Late 18th century MSM really needed the boost!

[brooklynite]

21. Is there a point to polls like this?

Everyone has their opinion, which doesn't change as result of the poll.

[Polybius]

23. No, they don't want him back

They just want a horserace.

[FakeNoose]

25. There is no monolithic "MSM opinion" out there

I don't see how anyone can answer yes or no...

[budkin]

31. Absolutely

Their ratings went up BIGLY during his presidency.

[ecstatic]

32. If so, I won't shed a single tear when he gets back in

and throws all their asses in jail.