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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,175 posts)
Fri May 20, 2016, 03:49 PM May 2016

I just walked by CNN on in my office lobby....

All I heard was Trump giving the same lame, tired "I'm going to win so much you're going to beg me to stop winning" speech that he's given for the past 11 or so months.

I always thought the concept of "news" was to show you things that were, you know, new.

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Rex

(65,616 posts)
1. No, this is about the M$M getting their own guy into office.
Fri May 20, 2016, 03:51 PM
May 2016

Trump is one of them, so he gets all the airtime and anything else he wants to help defeat HRC. News was something they did prior to Gulf War I.

LisaM

(27,803 posts)
2. And yet the media refuses to admit that they created Donald Trump.
Fri May 20, 2016, 03:52 PM
May 2016

The foreign media, frankly, isn't much better. They are so outraged that he may be the nominee that they give him constant attention, too. It's like every foreign person you see starts out by saying, "how can you Americans vote for Donald Trump"? and really, the only response to that should be, "et tu, Brute?"

 

Shandris

(3,447 posts)
4. Well, then, I've got some bad news for you.
Fri May 20, 2016, 03:55 PM
May 2016

The News, as it were, is mostly fictitious and exists to sell you a false reality under the mantle of a corrupted dialectic that passes itself off as a """Democracy""". It is, in no way, meant to inform you. In fact, that is the LAST thing they wish to happen.

The Medes have always been illusionists. The Magic of Wandwood doesn't just exist in movies, you know.

 

The_Casual_Observer

(27,742 posts)
5. It's actually pretty good that they are getting this out of their
Fri May 20, 2016, 03:56 PM
May 2016

systems early. In a few weeks they will be board with him and start making fun of him.

Warpy

(111,249 posts)
6. Now it's just to fill air time with witless babble
Fri May 20, 2016, 04:03 PM
May 2016

that people who don't want to think tune into. It delivers a nicely passive audience to the commercials.

And y'all wonder why I haven't watched TV news since 2004.

zappaman

(20,606 posts)
8. CNN is pretty much all Trump all the time.
Fri May 20, 2016, 06:31 PM
May 2016

I have the misfortune of it being in my elevator at work.
Ugh.

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