Horserace Horserace Horserace Horserace

[DanieRains]

Issues.... Meh
Character.... Meh
Record... Meh
Policies... Meh

God our "media coverage" sucks

Reminds me of emails, emails, emails and nothing about bankruptcies, laundering, fraud, and other crimes.

Something doesn't smell right.

[Fresh_Start]

1. so which news organization do you support with your money?

I have subscriptions to 3.

[DanieRains]

5. DU - Thrive

I signed up.

[wisteria]

2. It is all about money and ratings

A few years ago we used call the political media presstitutes.

[redqueen]

3. Remember mediawhoresonline?

Used to love that site.

Really wish he'd start it up again.

[SergeStorms]

17. The "Media Horse" they used to call it....

when TV hosts quoted anything from the site. Yeah, good old "media horse".

[pandr32]

4. We have turned our elections into an endless reality show

Big mistake.
Everyone is waiting for someone to show superpowers, but come-on people--our candidates are just plain old humans.
Sadly, some are projecting superpowers on some candidates.

IF we can overcome the rat-fucking by DT and his party of cheaters and foreign hackers we should concentrate on overturning Citizens United and return to publicly-funded elections. We should also end our reality show election process and begin to reclaim some dignity in the election process. Enough of this endless fund raising.

[Sherman A1]

8. Precisely

You hit the nail on the head.

[pandr32]

11. Thank you!

[CaptYossarian]

12. Bring back Feingold-McCain.

Or just bring back Russ Feingold. Moe-Ron Johnson's a real dumbass.

[DeminPennswoods]

14. Good point

As soon as a winner is declared in Nov, the cable news networks will pivot immediately to the 2024 election. We really need a law like in France that prohibits electioneering until just a few months before the election.

[pandr32]

15. Yes! It gets in the way of actually doing "the people's " business

[lunatica]

20. We also need to shorten the damn political campaigns to 6 months

They go one for 2 years now! It’s insane.

[pandr32]

22. Yes we do

It is as though they are all multi-level marketing hucksters instead of serious people vying to do 'the People's' work. Not enough real work gets done because of endless campaigning and posturing for donors.

[brooklynite]

6. I'm sure that a network symposium on comparative tax policies would attract...

...literally DOZENS of viewers.

[Martin Eden]

7. **our "media coverage" sucks**

Almost every question at the debate was either a trap or an effort to fan the flames of controversy by pitting the candidates against each other.

For-profit media criteria is click-bait, not the merit of a candidate's record, ideas, and qualifications.

[Sherman A1]

9. Yup

It is all to manufacture drama and fill airtime between ads for drugs we never knew we needed.

[Laelth]

10. The media will do what the media will do.

They have to fill the airtime with something. When there's no news, we get horserace. It's somewhat frustrating, I admit, but it is what it is.



-Laelth

[AtheistCrusader]

13. The media sells ad space/clicks for income.

They will run whatever draws the most eyeballs/clicks.

So it's going to be sensationalist trash.

[MarcA]

16. The notion that the MSM is a noble truth seeking organization is an Image

largely created by the MSM itself. That is Not to say that a free press is unnecessary
and does not do any good.

[Mr.Bill]

18. The rich own the media.

All of it.

[wisteria]

19. Exactly.

What have the talking heads actually told us about any of these candidates? I say very little. Not to put Klobachar down, but do the voters in NH actually know where she stands on the issues? She a great debate performance and the media ran with that.
What do we really know about Sanders or Buttieg?
The only candidate they report on is Biden, and it is always mostly negative.
I am sick of them all. I have cancelled my subscription to the Washington Post and the NY Times. And, I have sworn off of MSNBC, CNN is on it way out with me too.
Local News is the only fair and balance news reporting left.

[Awsi Dooger]

21. When the winner has something like 26%

The media wouldn't be doing its job without focus on the horse race aspect.

Ideally we would have had a 2 or 3 person field. That would have meant a dominant candidate.

Depth means nothing. Give me that super horse above anything and everything related to depth.

[ThoughtCriminal]

23. One caucus and one primary and they are trying to call it

Sherman, set the WAYBAC Machine to February 2016...

[mysteryowl]

24. But we can talk about the list you have posted here on DU.