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UpInArms

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26. I remember ... back in 2001

Fri Dec 18, 2020, 12:57 PM

Dec 2020

watching Peter Jennings on the evening news ... after 911, he had exposed the shorting of airline stocks and linked it to Buzzy Krongard ... and said that he was going to continue to cover it and find the answers and tell the truth ...

well, he pretty much dropped that hot potato of a story and went on with other stuff ...

A while after that, I asked my mother (now passed) why Peter Jennings did not continue that investigation ... "wasn't it his JOB to tell us the truth?" ... mom's response has stuck with me ever since

"Peter Jennings will never see his job as telling the truth. He will always see his job as KEEPING HIS FACE ON THE TEEVEE SCREEN."

For me, it isn't how right or left these people are - it is the fact that they work for CORPORATIONS that have no desire for anything to change or get better for people. They only desire it to get better for the CORPORATIONS.

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Eric Boehlert: 'Dems in Disarray' -- the press targets Biden [View all] babylonsister Dec 2020 OP

Agree with this writing 100% UpInArms Dec 2020 #1

Apparently many in the media haven't learned PatSeg Dec 2020 #22

Post removed Post removed Dec 2020 #2

This is MAGA taking points with no facts backing then up or relative comparisons for perspective. uponit7771 Dec 2020 #4

Totally agree. cwydro Dec 2020 #6

You misunderstand. OP quotes article against press for using R talking points. It's NOT making them. Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2020 #8

Sadly I agree with you. zentrum Dec 2020 #7

I agree. Hunter Biden did nothing illegal. I'd debate shady.... mjvpi Dec 2020 #16

Whoever wrote that Times article doesn't see the kGOP as a threat like most Americans uponit7771 Dec 2020 #3

You misunderstand. Article supports our assertion that press continually overlooks GOP idiocy. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2020 #9

And the press needs to be hounded for all the mess it has created. BComplex Dec 2020 #5

+1. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2020 #10

I remember ... back in 2001 UpInArms Dec 2020 #26

Good rant. BComplex Dec 2020 #27

will just offer up this link UpInArms Dec 2020 #28

TY Bigredhunk Dec 2020 #11

It is why we had a meglomaniac would be dictator foisted into the presidency Cosmocat Dec 2020 #12

There goes that liberal media again. Trashing conservatives and praising liberals no matter what. Pobeka Dec 2020 #13

WE NEED MORE ERICS! Native Dec 2020 #14

It's our job not to give this any voice, watch, read or forward this shit Thekaspervote Dec 2020 #15

DU has to give voice to it RVN VET71 Dec 2020 #20

+1 c-rational Dec 2020 #23

just turn it off! choke off its life blood...eyeballs, ad money NRaleighLiberal Dec 2020 #17

It's an updated version of "Have you stopped beating your wife?" BobTheSubgenius Dec 2020 #18

One of, iirc, Nicolle Wallace's guests yesterday DeminPennswoods Dec 2020 #19

+1 c-rational Dec 2020 #24

Media is to blame marieo1 Dec 2020 #21

+1 c-rational Dec 2020 #25

100 % correct so lets see why they look and speaknow Dec 2020 #29

Fuck OFF "press" you're Fucking Craven Cha Dec 2020 #30