It's utterly amazing to see the change in how our broadcast media operates when...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

...something like a plane crash happens versus their conduct in politics.

They media are suddenly much more professional news reporters, careful to specify when they or the talking heads "are speculating here" and careful to stress when initial reports have or have not "been confirmed", which they never do with politicians or policy-makers during their political coverage. I need not paint a picture of their political coverage for DUers, who already know that it is at least laughable and enraging, if not downright appalling in its darkness and horrifying in its evil.

[Duckhunter935]

1. So true and very sad

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. Your talking about the difference between News reporting and opinion reporting.

Almost all campaign reporting are opeds. They are designed to drive opinion and keep their audience watching.
In news reporting, they follow stricter rules. They report Who, what, where when, and how.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

4. It's not just opinion reporting. You and I can discern that because we're junkies. The...

...average Joe or Jane, not so much. Their political reporting is a propaganda machine that manipulates Joe and Jane into thinking a certain way and this evil is presented to them in the form of what looks like a newscast. Joe and Jane don't see it as opinion, they see it as news. Joe and Jane vote, and engage in discourse, accordingly.

[Agnosticsherbet]

6. Almost all cable news is opinion journalism. It's opinions are focused to appeal to the audience

demographic so they can sell ads. That is why MSNBC reports are so different from FOX or CNN.

[lagomorph777]

3. I disagree: MSNBC's FIRST reaction was to stake out Trump Tower so they could get a quote

From Donald Dump. I watched them speculate for several minutes about what Trump would say about the crash, before I switched it off in disgust.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

5. I missed all that trying to avoid watching their political propaganda and subterfuge. As...

...of 11:00 CDT they are acting like an actual news channel and not like a WWE-like political circus, with every fake move and every fake character and all the manufactured drama present and accounted for.

I finally tuned in to MSNBC about an hour ago to learn more about the Egyptair plane situation.

[AgerolanAmerican]

7. depends on the plane crash

There was a distinct lack of due diligence in the MH17 and MH380 disasters, they pretty much regurgitated whatever the official line was, verbatim.

[oldandhappy]

8. ha ha I was thinking that the plane and Safer

would change the focus today. And the vocabulary. Agree.

[dmosh42]

9. It's all about 'fitting' the news to what the owners want-and a dumb population being manipulated.

[MadDAsHell]

10. It's not just politics. Reporting on people is always more salacious than reporting on events. nt

[certainot]

11. the worst part is the easy ability of the right specifically to drive

the emphasis the way they want

their most effective coordinated buzz generating tool for doing that has been unchallenged by the left for 25 years.

at a cheap $1000/hr x 15hrs/day x 1200 stations, rw talk radio is worth 4.68 BIL$/ year or 390MIL$ /month FREE for coordinated global warming denial, pro republican wall st think tank propaganda, free market deregulation bullshit, swiftboating, and the hate and fear used to get people to vote republican.

[90-percent]

12. was wondering about the extent of the non stop coverage on msnbc

I'm guessing they were hoping it was a terrorist attack because, you know MIC!

The coverage seems very disproportionate to the lives lost. We loose that many Vets to suicide in 2 and a half days, and probably 50,000% more per day to cancer.

The media reveals their agenda-driven-corporate-propaganda in their framing of the Nevada dispute. My frame is that the MSM reporting was taken out of context - like the 13 hour days - and and understandingly angry response to the tyrannical nd unfair and against their own rues of the Nevada DNC chair.

In this age of Rovian rat fucking on the Democratic side, it's interesting to see which journalists are on which side. The powers-that-be and the-establishment are coming into full view of the American people. More and more of us are catching on to being played for chumps by the Oligarchs. Who re really getting brazen and affording a clear view of the man-behind-the-curtain.

-90% jimmy

[lunatica]

13. When it comes to airplanes crashing, going missing or exploding

CNN can't ever get enough of it. That's what was on this morning at 4am when I woke up.

[Fast Walker 52]

16. I refuse to watch them. They disgust me.

[Fritz Walter]

14. It's all about ratings, and advertising revenue generation

Plane crashes and other sudden disaster events boost ratings. They don't need to be sensationalized. At least not while the news is fresh (and I'm speaking to you, CNN).

On the other hand, partisan politics would be so boring that most viewers would switch to Netflix or other sources if not for the hype, rumor-mongering and other sensationalism.

These personalities are not journalists. They're salesmen for boner-pills, ambulance chasers and everything else they can hawk on the airwaves or coaxial.

[Fast Walker 52]

15. I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, the corporate media is a criminal syndicate

screwing us over. They are the enemy.