A huge "Thank You" to all the reporters and news organizations,

[duforsure]

Who've worked so hard uncovering so much, so far. Their dedication to the truth and the American people being exposed to it is a value we need now more than ever.

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

1. I think the reporting of the MSM has improved recently, but...

it still doesn't make up for what they've done in the past.

[gab13by13]

2. I will concede there are some fantastic investigative journalists,

but when the story hits cable news a right hand spin is put on it. Journalists do uncover dirt but then it is downplayed.

If Trump had been a Democrat he would have been impeached, convicted, indicted and convicted.

[jaxexpat]

4. Damn straight. I'm not congratulating them for doing their job.

At long last!

[duforsure]

10. Like with Watergate some have been extremely good at doing thheir job.

[jaxexpat]

13. The SOB's just can't make up their minds.

Will it be a hit job or snow job? That is their whole repertoire.

[BlueWavePsych]

3. Thank you MSM!

[Trueblue Texan]

5. People can say what they want about the media...

...but they defend democracy just like the military, going into war zones, domestic minefields of all kinds. They're not perfect, but we'd be history without them.

[NNadir]

6. But her emails...

[kacekwl]

7. Is this

sarcasm ?

[IronLionZion]

8. Some journalists have done better than others

so I pay for good journalism to encourage more of it.

[Joinfortmill]

9. Thanks to the few who keep doggedly digging.

[duforsure]

11. That's what I'm talking about, not the near do wells, those investigative reporters,

Who've uncovered the truth.

[Danascot]

12. For the most part the media is part of the echo chamber

We could have seen it coming after all this time. They’re reliably predictable, no crystal ball required.

Trump appears to be in trouble: The FBI serves a warrant on Mar-a-Lago, seizing papers.

There’s a moment of hesitation or pause: Trump delivers a ranty statement some time after the FBI leaves.

The coordinated response is generated: Trump’s lawyers make a false claim about evidence being planted by FBI.

The zone is flooded: The right-wing’s proxies and media repeat ad nauseam the same false claim.

The media dutifully picks up and repeats: the zone is further flooded, amplifying the false claim.

This is a cycle we’ve seen repeated over and over again. The only additional step not included here is the final one in which some pundit will opine about this situation being bad for Democrats and Joe Biden though it has nothing to do with them whatsoever.

By now you’d think the media would have cottoned on they are used in this scenario like so much facial tissue — but no. They are as reflexive as the right-wing ecosphere itself, almost as if an adjunct.

Trump and his right-wing soldati ring the Pavlovian bell and the corporate media comes slobbering for an easy bone to chew.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/08/10/expected-response-is-expected-trump-and-right-wing-darvo/

[robbob]

14. I see great investigative reporting from non MSM sources,

Such as Rolling Stone, or the recent Vanity Fair hard hitting post mortem of TFG “zero tolerance” border policies which separated parents from children with NO consideration for tracking these families after they’d been separated. Criminal and cruel behaviour.

If I show anything like this to my Fox watching friend he just shrugs his shoulders and says it’s a left wing fashion magazine. Facts and solid reporting doesn’t matter to these people. Anything that doesn’t fit their narrative is “fake news”. This is probably the greatest damage TDFG has done to America; there is no longer such a thing as “truth”.