The Press: "If we don't let these Repukes come on and spew their propaganda unchallenged..

[edhopper]

They will stop coming on our shows to spew their propaganda unchallenged."

[BoRaGard]

1. Oh Noes!

Not that.

[magicarpet]

2. Propaganda is the sustenance that,....

.... feeds the news cycle and keeps it going merrily along.

[edhopper]

3. It is actually worse

Have a GOP propagandist on and let him talk unchallenged. Then have a Dem on and use what the GOPer said to attack the Dem.

[taxi]

6. That pretty much sums it up.

A contest in which the winning show hits bottom first.

[Walleye]

4. So I guess nobody is liable for these lies anymore.

They used to be if you published a lie it was on you no matter who told it to you. I think of that every time I hear one of them say, Trump says, Trump wants, Trump hints. Trump indicates Trump teases. They are knowingly publishing lies on their platform, but we can’t do anything about it

[edhopper]

5. Two headlines, one we never saw

Trump Says Biden Economy Worse in Decades

Biden Economy Best in Decades

[creeksneakers2]

7. They press need to hear more complaints.

The right wing has been able to pressure them. We ought to be able to also.

[edhopper]

8. The Right Wing

owns them.

[creeksneakers2]

9. I don't think completely

But they have way more influence than they should.

[calimary]

10. THIS!!!

This! THIS!! THIS!!!

[creeksneakers2]

11. ?

[RecoveringJournalist]

12. The game has changed

The left complains. The right makes threats of physical violence. Which do you think carries more weight?

The game has changed. We must adapt.

[Beartracks]

13. News Flash to the Press: Republicans already regard you with disdain and contempt.

They only come on your shows to USE YOU to spread their bullshit because they KNOW you won't meaningfully challenge them on it. You're being played.

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[GiqueCee]

14. The M$M...

are craven whores with surgically implanted knee pads, and grotesquely enhanced lips, the better to plant sloppy smooches on the pimply, cellulite-raddled butt cheeks of He-Whose-Name-Cannot-Be-Pronounced-Without-Gagging.
Fascist billionaires own them, lock, stock, and barrel*, and Bezos has already demonstrated that honesty and integrity have no place in contemporary "journalism", if we dare still call it that. If it bleeds, it leads. And if it isn't bleeding, stab it a few times. Lies circle the globe while truth is still tying its shoes. And other dark platitudes appropriate for such occasions.
Our Pollyannic naïveté and starry-eyed belief that they will play by the same rules to which we staunchly adhere has meant that we have been left in the dust while devious minds conspired against all that is still good in this country. We got some catchin' up to do.