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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChuck Todd SLIPPED AND TELLS THE TRUTH About Traditional Mainstream News
Chuck Todd had a very interesting segment featuring comedians/satirists Lewis Black W. Kamau Bell, and Laura Krafft. He was trying to examine the influence and impact of comedians in the body politic.
Lewis Black had a backhanded stab at Chuck Todd and the traditional mainstream media news that caused Chuck Todd to tell an inconvenient truth.
I have watched you and everybody else where somebody comes on, Lewis Black said. I dont know how you do it. Because I would be barking at them. Because they sit there and go glib glib [blah blah] and you sit there.
Chuck Todd then interjected. We all sit there because we all know the first time we bark is the last time we do the show, Chuck Todd said. All of a sudden, no one will come on your show.
Rex
(65,616 posts)That died out back when CNN decided they were bigger than Jesus.
BellaKos
(318 posts)Why watch you at all? If you don't have the stones to challenge the "glib, glib," then I would be better off just reading the politicians' press releases. Saves time.
Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)Cenk had his short run on MSNBC ended because he was calling them out and they had told him to stop, he would jeopardize their "access!"
Networks did just fine getting politicians to come on their shows 30 years ago, before they all turned into propaganda machines. Journalism is truly dead if a host of a major Sunday show openly admits he is virtually a shill. He has stated in the past that as a journalist it wasn't his job to do journalism (challenge Republican lies about the ACA)!
This is the best they can come up with? If they are going to blow smoke up our butts, wouldn't it make sense not to pick the guy who has asthma?
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)What he said boils down to this, he either gives Republicans a platform to lie with impunity or he's off the air. And he so hates this country and so wants to be one of "them" that he is willing to do this.
Journalist? More like booking agent.
Fuck you Chuck.
whathehell
(29,026 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)saying that it was his job to spread the propaganda.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Good policy.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)people who want to speak truth, dammit. People who want to bark the truth out.
this was one of the most amazing sad truths I have seen on M$M lately.
Fugg all the liars, let the truth speakers out!
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Our efforts should be directed toward dismantling this advantage.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)is to convince Comedy Central to air a fresh Jon Stewart show on Sunday mornings.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Maynar
(769 posts)what a great idea!
ZX86
(1,428 posts)Jon could host the show with a rotating set of guest journalists to ask questions and a select group of reporters, academics, and political savvy comedians for the panel discussions.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)I can see Jon asking the guest a legitimate question of a guest and getting back a MM answer, whereupon Jon would launch into his usual mocking assessments thereof!
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Live talk show with a couple of decent reporters, no script.
I would watch!
whathehell
(29,026 posts)someone like JS.
Boreal
(725 posts)that teevee "news" has dismal ratings as people have chosen alternative sources on the internet.
spanone
(135,781 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)I quit a long time ago, but will watch the clip with Lewis Black. He's terrific.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)project_bluebook
(411 posts)The networks get blacklisted if they challenge any lies. GW had the same rules at his press conferences.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)daredtowork
(3,732 posts)The trick is to be so awesome that people are begging to come on your show.
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)If I'm mean to the war criminal he won't come on my show.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)I wonder who would dare to come on it.
JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)...he would allow Democrats to get away with lies too, if they did come on his show and tell lies. However, he seldom ever gets around to inviting them on his show, and when he does they don't tell lies, so the issue doesn't arise.
But in the interest of accuracy Lewis Black didn't ask about Republicans, he asked about "somebody."
librechik
(30,673 posts)Have you ever heard of a Republican turning down a guest shot on MTP? It never happens. If GOP is in power, bookers balance the Rs up because they are in power. If the GOP is not in power, they boost them up because they are the loyal opposition. I know cuz it was my job to count them.
These producers are not interested in filling the (fictional) vacuum caused by loss of GOP voices with anybody other than the most conservative voices left. They are extremely unlikely to book segments on green technology. sustainability, and making peace. The owners of all 6-15 US media companies are international globalist billionaire or their American stooges. They won't pay to have us (liberals) on and they don't care that they lose money over it (not much money)
Until our alternate media has as much power as Time Warner, nobody is going to hear us.
Dadlee41
(1 post)Chuck is not cut from the cloth of Cronkite! He's not even a David Gregory. I wonder what "Masked Man", they'll hire soon to replace him. Courage is lacking in so many media and political venues. I guess the best we can hope for now is slip ups that reaffirm liberal values.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)Maybe on a show like this, maybe something else. But in a democracy, it should be so important that it is a law that a chosen representative is put on once a week from each party to answer questions from a host that cannot be fired. The problem would be finding someone that will be accepted by the right and the left. Perhaps two or three individuals representing the spectrum. Or new hosts every week. Some system where elected politicians MUST defend their positions publicly and be asked questions by someone that is perhaps also "elected" for a term.
In Canada here, we at least have something called "Question Period" in our Parliament. Where all parties get to stand up and raise and direct questions to the governing party in a publicly televised session. In the USA, there seems to be no avenue for direct criticism or questioning and forcing a politician to answer. As this story shows, even the "free press" is cuckolded. (...or Chuckolded)
cp
(6,615 posts)So if a war criminal like Dick Cheney won't come on MTP anymore, don't we all win?
davekriss
(4,615 posts)A well known phenomenon. See, for example, Herbert & Chomsky's 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent. (And Chomsky's Necessary Illusions).
This situation is made exponentially worse with the demise of FCC regulations like the Fairness Doctrine, the anti-Attack rule, and the Rule of Sevens. Plus the 1996 Telecommunications Reform Act, accelerating the concentration of almost all major media into the hands of a half dozen mega-corporations. All this brings a lot of negative pressure on the isolated journalist.
Hurray for the disintermediation of the Internet! Hurray for the livestream journalist and bloggers and forums like this! However, currently, our collective voice is drowned out daily by the megaphones of major media. Thus the desire by the PTB to muzzle the Internet....