Media Fail

[kairos12]

After the Chump blockade of NEVER admitting they were wrong about anything, ever, the media is trying to recoup.

How, by relentlessly asking Biden officials: apologize for the Afghanistan, why didn't you see inflation coming, didn't you miscalculate Putin's goals, why can't you get anything through the Senate, isn't your border policy failing, and crowning achievement, there were way more questions about Biden's diagnosis of COVID then was ever asked of the Bloated Orange Tick.

The media is failing democracy.

[Lulu KC]

1. Couldn't agree more

Every day I miss Eric Boehlert. Every single day.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Make it cost. Change the channel and tell them why.

Every time they do that shit, contact them or their advertisers and tell them why you have switched to another outlet.

[BComplex]

3. How can we demand accountability for this?

We all know this is happening. I'm sure there are statisticians who can show how many negative remarks are made in the media against democratic figures/liberals/democrats, etc, that could show just how fucking against democrats the mainstream media is. But how do we get this main message to the masses of people who are just trying to hide from the problems we have?

[KS Toronado]

4. Good question

no easy answers, change some of the rules they operate under?

[ancianita]

10. Feel ya. We ask this constantly, yell at media sites on social media. If you're not in the habit,

maybe try it with some kind of template. This one's yelling at Politico just about their guns bs that doesn't name the perennial agents of our gun problem. Plug in the media name, add the issue de jour, then stomp on their intentional corporate blindness. In public. On platforms. Or make up your own style of lambast; others here are even better at this.

Yo, Politico? (or any media name, any report that casts aspersions on Democrats)

Say it right. Say their fucking name — REPUBLICAN.
Say it right: REPUBLICANS have a gun problem.

Republicans accept the carnage of mass shootings so they can keep their AR-15 murder machines.

Republicans refuse to join Democrats to pass common sense HR 8 AND HR 1446 legislation.

It is not “we”.
It is not “Americans”.
It is not “Congress”.
It is not "Democrats in disarray."
It is not “Government”.
It is not “our leaders need to do something”.

No. Knock off your blame shifting.

This is 100% the fault of Republicans at every level of Government, top to bottom — from Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans to Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans, to every Republican governor and statehouse to all Republican voters — ALL of them.

Republicans cockblock Democrats.

Knock your weasel media deflection the fuck OFF. Say REPUBLICAN.

As you imply, we can also monitor. Here are some Pew stats. Overall, they say it's not as bad as we think. It's still not truthful, either. But it's possible that social media responses might have tempered their pro-Republican bias.

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. It's by design, not a failure.

[Novara]

6. They're not trying to make up for anything

The media have ALWAYS been harder on Democrats, period.

And face it, the Biden administration doesn't have a scandal du jour. The media has to focus on actual issues. How much shit got swept under the rug while they were chasing shiny objects during that fucked-up regime?

[OMGWTF]

11. During Shitler's Reign of Terror, they should have changed "Breaking News"

to 'Look what this mofo did now!'

[Novara]

12. No kidding.

I hate the constant BREAKING NEWS crawl on msnbc. Some of it broke days ago but they still have it on there all day long. Kind of like the boy who cried wolf, it tends to get ignored and they can't then distinguish between real breaking news and shit that broke days ago.

[reACTIONary]

7. IKR? I don't even know why....

... the right wing extremists complain about how THEY are mistreated by the (to quote Sara Palin) lame stream media. Don't they know M$M is on THEIR side?

Actually, it's the media's responsibility to particularly question and to report on the current administration. And since the current administration is Democratic...

[llashram]

8. BIG big big

RW money is in charge of 'media' in this country. They make or break a POTUS with their distraction, lies, purposeful deletions, obvious RW political bias and much much more. And at the end of all this profit is the prime motivation of the drama THEY CREATE. SHIT, if trump runs which RW media is chomping at the bit to see by that would bring in huge profits for them.

There is really no such thing as journalism as I studied it 50 years ago. Who, what, when where and why. Have not seen that in a long time.

[Orrex]

9. Don't worry

As soon as a Republican oozes into the White House again, the media will resume its preferred posture of timid deference.

[ancianita]

13. All crooked donnie had to do was attack media as the 'enemy of the people',

then the so-called "liberal" media dared not piss him off anymore.
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The media has played double standards in coverage constantly. For instance...
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Ron DeSantis and red state governors are killing more people each day than the Taliban. Do media expose his fascist move to defund Broward and Alachua county school boards? Of course not!
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So yeah, media and red staters feel free to go right ahead and tell everyone who is 'failing' in their job. Nevermind that IQ45 abandoned his Kurdish allies and 16 military and air bases in Syria to Putin. Nevemind that IQ45 gave first dibs as part of his covid vaccine distribution.
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Irresponsible use of media freedom and 'personal' freedom -- both could be the death of us at the hands of stupid people, both dragging women & children and democracy down with them, unless we stop them.

[KPN]

14. The media is not failing democracy, they are

actively undermining it. Quite easily to boot. Just couple a greed driven news/commentary infrastructure with a relatively intellectually lazy and, consequently, uninformed audience and democracy can defeat itself — especially with the aid of archaic electoral artifacts like the electoral college and 2 senators for every State regardless of population.