2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSo what's the first thing David Gregory asks Axe this morning?
How come there were 14,000 instead of 18,000 at the Ohio rally yesterday (with camera pointing to empty seats). Is the President losing his support. Of course Axelrod told him he should have followed the campaign to Virginia where they were packed to the rafters with many unable to get in. Meet The Press is unwatchable. I really tried so I could hear first-hand, could not do it. Axelrod is the best to respond to these inane questions but it goes to show how the right has absolutely nothing to talk about except empty seats.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)rurallib
(62,344 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)any........minute......now........
dkf
(37,305 posts)Sad.
kartski
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CTyankee
(63,769 posts)This bozo is now on my last nerve...my remote's mute button will henceforth dispatch his next appearance on msnbc...
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)ONLY 14K? Really? That's terrible!
liberal N proud
(60,300 posts)None of them have been overly stellar.
a kennedy
(29,462 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)Jesus effing christ, is that what passes for news on meet the douchebag?
That show was well on its way down the crapper before dances with Rove took over but anymore he really has turned it into a joke.
Words fail me.
otohara
(24,135 posts)George Will is exceptionally nasty this AM and made mention of the "empty seats"
Pisces
(5,592 posts)Romney appeared on his show?
high density
(13,397 posts)I have never seen him be confrontational to Republicans in the way he is to Democrats.
DAngelo136
(264 posts)Once upon a time "Meet The Press" was a respected show which seasoned journalists with pertinent questions held policy makers accountable to the public. Between 1947 until 1991, MTP was a show worth watching.
In the interim, entertainment replaced journalism and the quality of news shows suffered as a result. Today's journalists are more concerned with "access" rather than "facts" or "accountability". That was brought home to me when Wolf Blitzer brought Mila Kunis to the White House Correspondents Dinner. While this is not a slap against Ms.Kunis, who is rather attractive, I could not imagine Edward R. Murrow bringing a celebrity( let's say Betty Grable) to a function primarily for reporters.
Today's reporters or shall I say, newsreaders, are more enamored with celebrity than with real journalism, in my humble opinion. Wolf Blitzer to me is interchangeable with Mary Hart or John Tesh for that matter. And as for Fox News, not only is it editorial opinion dressed up as news, it's formulaic as all hell. When Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are a generation's version of Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley, you know that you have a problem; a humungous problem with credibility.
"For surely we shall pay for using this most powerful instrument of communication to insulate the citizenry from the hard and demanding realities which must be faced if we are to survive. I mean the word survive literally. If there were to be a competition in indifference, or perhaps in insulation from reality, then Nero and his fiddle, Chamberlain and his umbrella, could not find a place on an early afternoon sustaining show. If Hollywood were to run out of Indians, the program schedules would be mangled beyond all recognition. Then some courageous soul with a small budget might be able to do a documentary telling what, in fact, we have done--and are still doing--to the Indians in this country. But that would be unpleasant. And we must at all costs shield the sensitive citizens from anything that is unpleasant."-Edward R. Murrow (RTDNA Convention Speech, 1958)
Those words were spoken by Murrow over 50 years ago, how prescient they seem today. Indeed, while the networks are complicit in the demise of journalism, then so are we, the viewing public. Without our co-operation, they cannot continue, they cannot exist. So in that sense, we have the power to stop this: Just. Stop. Watching.
LiberalFighter
(50,491 posts)center rising
(971 posts)Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)There is such a weak case for the country not to reup President Obama.
I watched because someone asked late last week if the Sunday shows would highlight how horrible of a mistake Romney made with his over the top remarks about the Chinese dissident.
I said fat chance, that if it was a democrat, it would end his or her campaign, but since it was an R they would just ignor it.
The only mention of it during MTP was Gregory doing this pathetic, ham handed, "how did things go so wrong" question to VP Biden doing the obligatory put the D on the defense for a republican being a clown question. Nothing the whole hour about Mitten's end of it.
I don't tend to watch because Gregory IS a republican whore.
But, the hour was instructive as to just how little the Rs have to run on against president Obama. End of the day, it boils down to beating him up because the economy is improving too slowly.
Really?
That is it?
I think we have to hold our breathe, though.
Romney and the Rs will do what the did this week with the dissident a couple of times a week for the next 6 months. He will be wrong and the media won't hold him to account for it, but there is always a chance that SOMETHING will get some traction for them along the way - right or wrong.
mucifer
(23,373 posts)gregory's questions. I thought our VP really shined talking about foreign policy, the election, the economy and lesbian and gay rights.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/
Sarcasticus
(41 posts)Gregory is a joke.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)Everyone else follows
CenaW
(38 posts)Current hot talking point.
Tell whoppers about President Obama events.. . they can't show any photos of Romney events, no one is ever there.
A Romney campaign event is like Gertrude Stein's remark about Oakland.
". . .There is no there there."
mulsh
(2,959 posts)have to watch them. Seriously, none of these Sunday morning political shows are anything as informative as poorly made infomercials. don't you have better things to do? I know I sure do.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)A Brand New World
(1,119 posts)because all week the news outlets & Ohio State warned people to expect crowds. Ohio State had 2 other major events occurring at the same time. The final State Science Fair was occurring in another building & a marathon had streets in the vicinity closed. 14,000 is still a good crowd. I got to see the motorcade leave because the parking lot where we parked was closed by the Secret Service until the motorcade left. We saw Mrs. Obama waving to us as they went by. Great Day!