Memo to CNN, among others...

[Swede]

[Warpy]

1. That's all that CNN's got left

after the last asshole tried to turn them into Pox News #2.

Journalism costs money. You have to fly people around to where stories are happening and those people need to be able to talk and to write and there has to be a camera operator with decent equipment with them.

Empty headed drones who mouth GOP talking points are cheap.

[PortTack]

3. Empty headed drones...oh like bash...what a poor excuse for a journalist she is!

[Cha]

2. Boom! Yeah, Dana Bash.

[peppertree]

23. I remember when they once, in the Bush years, accidentally called her Dana Bush

She grinned like a teenage girl when someone mentions her first crush.

[SocialDemocrat61]

4. Some will make the argument

That Trump and republicans attack CNN all the time. What they miss is they are ‘working the refs’. Republicans criticize CNN and other media outlets so they will lean further to the right in order to look fair and unbiased.

[DFW]

5. I saw that one clip. I don't remember it word for word, but it was something like:

Dana Bash: Republican talking point. Please respond.

VP Harris: Been there, done that. Next.

Bash: That's it?

Harris: That's it.

Bash: Uh-oh, I have thirty seconds of empty air. NOW what do I do?

[hadEnuf]

16. Trump and the Republican fascists go after Fox Propaganda when they don't agree with him.

Who it is makes no difference. Trump is making it clear he will be a dictator if elected.

[ms liberty]

17. It's something they worked at heavily in the early 90's

First Newt and his GoPac, then Tom Delay was pretty open about their aims to capture the media, and was also busy installing lobbyists with the K Street project.. I read an excellent book back in the 00's about their work to game the media, really informative. Wish I could remember the name of it, but at the moment it escapes me. If I remember it, Il'll edit this post because it was really well written and laid out the information clearly, IIRC.

[SocialDemocrat61]

19. Was the book

What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman?

[ms liberty]

22. I'll have to check, because I know i have read that one.

[calimary]

20. Yes. Please do!

[louis-t]

32. I remember Newt admitting the whole 'liberal media' thing was

fake. I wish I could find the quote.

[Grins]

34. I'll look in my files. But I have one from Pat Buchanan!

Said the SCLM treated him more honestly than those on the Reich. Will have to find it.

[ms liberty]

36. It's so strange to remember that he used to be a guest on her show regularly

He said she always treated him fairly lol.

[BoRaGard]

6. of all our institutions, corporate "journalism" has been the biggest FAIL

[Walleye]

7. I blame the individual reporters as well, they have fallen into laziness, clich, and self interest

I guess most of the TV Talking Heads make lots of money. Maybe that’s the problem trying to protect those big bucks from taxes.

[ancianita]

11. I blame all corporate media producers, who are the framers of content and questions.

Profit, the #1 goal of corporate media owners necessitate that they be shallow purveyors of shallow party talking points which invariably are Republican. They make politics shallow at talking point level.

Corporate media have to be dragged by online popularity to even acknowledge weird or mind your own damn business as a thing. But they refuse to challenge Republicans about what's behind those ideas.

[lees1975]

18. They also hire featherheads who will just follow the written script.

No insights, no creativity, no follow up, just lists of questions and blank stares when they don't know how to follow up on an unexpected, more astute answer.

If I were a college president of one of these schools producing such poor quality graduates in journalism, I'd ask them to hide their diploma.

[ancianita]

21. It's they who need changing, then they'll hire differently. Question: So, if you were

a university president -- say, of Virginia Commonwealth University, Temple University, and Boston University, University of Iowa, University of North Texas, and California State University at San Bernardino -- where broadcast news producers get degrees, what would you say at a sitdown with the various department heads that serve up course content?

[Walleye]

27. They hate to pay any kind of taxes, they need to hoard all the money to themselves, some of them barely pay payroll

[Charmin One]

8. Yet the MAGAs still think CNN is "LIB-rull"

There is a meme going round saying CNN edited the interview to make Kamala look good and that’s “propaganda”. I am not making this up!

[GopherGal]

9. Having trouble with your reply title line...

does not compute: "MAGAs still think".
When did MAGAs *start* thinking. They're just parroting their source(s) of truth, which is/are working the refs.

[SocialDemocrat61]

13. It's called playing the ref

It’s what conservatives have been doing for decades. Then media organizations bend more to the right to prove they are unbiased.

[Cosmocat]

12. SPOT ON

nm

[Clouds Passing]

14. Dana Bash The Joker

[Mysterian]

15. The only memo CNN will pay attention to

is the one from its billionaire nazi owner.

[ancianita]

28. Who would that nazi owner be? Warner Brothers Discovery, Inc? Or these guys... ?

Sir Mark Thompson (Chairman and CEO)
David Leavy (COO)
Michael Bass (EVP of Programming, CNN-US)[1]
Brad Ferrer (EVP/CFO)
Amy Entelis (EVP)[1]
Ken Jautz (EVP, CNN-US and HLN)[1]
Andrew Morse (EVP/Chief Digital Officer)

[orangecrush]

24. I'm guessing that whoever agreed to this interview

On the campaign staff is the same person/persons who agreed to let the debate proceed with Joe sick.

Get rid of them, NOW, FFS

[The Wizard]

25. CNN made a bad decision when

they lurched right to get back viewers who switched to Pox (deliberate typo). All that managed to do was lose more viewers who wanted something besides Russian propaganda (GOP talking points).
I stopped watching when they were openly rooting for Bill Clinton to be impeached as an impeachment translates into ratings / advertising dollars.
When Reagan opted to veto the restoration of the Fairness Doctrine it opened the door for propaganda to flood the media. We can than Reagan for infotainment like Rash Limbaugh, Pox News and Sinclair Broadcasting. Pox even won a lawsuit where they took the position that they could deliberately broadcast lies as verified news.

[Shermann]

26. Fair criticism, Bash was reading questions from a script at times. nt

[Best_man23]

29. Dana Bash couldn't get a job emptying Helen Thomas' wastebasket

I've all but given up on mainstream news. I read most of my news and take in a few podcasts.

[Locutusofborg]

30. I absolutely loved CNN reading GOP points

because Vice President Harris' responses were so spot on. This race may well be decided by political independents who could go either way.
How Harris counters what the right is throwing at her is essential.
Her poll numbers went UP after the CNN interview.

[NoMoreRepugs]

31. Incredibly weak effort there Basho..

[spanone]

33. Absolutely

[LogicFirst]

35. I want my old CNN back! NOW.