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Proud Liberal Dem

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22. I agree!

Sat Jan 30, 2021, 06:56 PM

Jan 2021

I don't get their weird fetish(?) for speaking with these looney tunes. Either they sympathize with these folks or they have some need of drama that they can only get from right wing loons. They just seem to prefer interviewing some much more entertaining people that should probably be mental institutions getting the proper mental health care and treatment because of their predilection to harm others instead of sifting through the sober policy details of, say, Medicare For All. Trump never won the popular vote and 2016 Hillary supporters were left out in the cold while outlets like NYT had a laser-like focus on the Trump voters and they're pretty much ignoring all of the millions of triumphant Biden voters and now focusing on the defeated Trump voters and Qanon freaks. I don't get it.

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They keep talking to "Former Qanon", " Trump voter", "Proud Boy" [View all] edhopper Jan 2021 OP

K & R!!! 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2021 #1

Yes, please. brush Jan 2021 #2

They can't resist the freak show and are acting as a twitter substitute for trump now PSPS Jan 2021 #3

Yup. nt SunSeeker Jan 2021 #7

K&R Bettie Jan 2021 #4

because talking to a sane person is a "dog bites man" story Orangepeel Jan 2021 #5

Yep, nt reACTIONary Jan 2021 #17

Crazy gets the clicks and eyeballs, normal doesn't. That's the problem with a for-profit press/med. SunSeeker Jan 2021 #6

The fairness doctrine had nothing to do with.. reACTIONary Jan 2021 #18

I was using "press" as a generic term. Fairness Doctrine did apply to TV & radio (broadcast media). SunSeeker Jan 2021 #24

I'm a civil libertarian, I don't believe in... reACTIONary Jan 2021 #39

Nobody is "forcing" you to listen to anything. SunSeeker Jan 2021 #55

I just don't agree... reACTIONary Jan 2021 #60

It's the "crazies" who have benefited from the demise of the Fairness Doctrine. SunSeeker Jan 2021 #67

What I disagree with is..... reACTIONary Jan 2021 #68

True OldBaldy1701E Jan 2021 #19

Exactly the same behavior by the press wnylib Jan 2021 #37

I'm with you! Cozmo Jan 2021 #42

Yup. They gave Trump millions of dollars of free, unchallenged air time. nt SunSeeker Jan 2021 #57

It sells beer, Buicks, Oldem Jan 2021 #8

Camera crews show up for car fires, not for people who are good at parallel parking hatrack Jan 2021 #9

Democrats are the true forgotten majority in America. dalton99a Jan 2021 #10

Total Votes For US House To Democrats... ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #23

As much as I want to cast these people aside... Initech Jan 2021 #11

But that is all the media talks to edhopper Jan 2021 #30

Yeah, despite the presidential outcome we're inundated w/Gaetz, Cruz, Hawley and McCarthy Cozmo Jan 2021 #46

Meet the Press is more like Meet the Republicans. Ligyron Jan 2021 #49

They did the same thing with Trump v. Hillary voters...they're slow learners! Karadeniz Jan 2021 #12

We should coin a new phrase Ferrets are Cool Jan 2021 #14

On CNN and MSNBC, it seems to be the daytime programmers who keep bombarding us with Karadeniz Jan 2021 #26

And that's how we get a Trump Presidency: low information voters soaked in piles of marginal ... marble falls Jan 2021 #13

And told they're special. plimsoll Jan 2021 #27

Soon enough those morons watching them start believing it, too. marble falls Jan 2021 #31

Absolutely! Frerotte Jan 2021 #64

To bad they don't both sides that. plimsoll Jan 2021 #66

The media's T**** addiction won't go cold turkey Dukkha Jan 2021 #15

We need to do something crazy to make the media take notice of us. Once the 42bambi Jan 2021 #16

The spoiled brat-child RepubliCONs are throwing tantrums and the media says "Ooo shiny!" . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #20

K&R! The media never talks to the Biden voters and ask what they see or want. UCmeNdc Jan 2021 #21

Like Al Franken explained in one of his books Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2021 #25

I agree! Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2021 #22

Excellent point, but I think the answer is simple. BobTheSubgenius Jan 2021 #28

Yep, nt reACTIONary Jan 2021 #40

The QAnoners, Trump voters, and Proud Boys just tried to overthrow pnwmom Jan 2021 #29

Not the point edhopper Jan 2021 #32

THIS malaise Jan 2021 #33

I agree, I get sick of interviews of the whackos who keep us from having nice things. Or just a Nitram Jan 2021 #34

And what about edhopper Jan 2021 #35

We who read newspapers already know the answer to that. Intelligent informed people Nitram Jan 2021 #43

By not allowing them edhopper Jan 2021 #45

They shape the narrative for each other. Are they doing that via the Washington Post? When you read Nitram Jan 2021 #47

THANK YOU volstork Jan 2021 #36

We need to organize zentrum Jan 2021 #38

Excellent points. Evolve Dammit Jan 2021 #41

I can not agree more, EDHOPPER copperearth Jan 2021 #44

If it bleeds it leads. ☹️ BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2021 #48

Exactly PutGramaOnThePhone Jan 2021 #50

Absolutely - right on the money FakeNoose Jan 2021 #51

Kick! Tommymac Jan 2021 #52

yep this confirms my contention that the media always talks to the conservate AllaN01Bear Jan 2021 #53

K&R Blue Owl Jan 2021 #54

Kick! love_katz Jan 2021 #56

I think it is important for the media to talk to FORMER members Vivienne235729 Jan 2021 #58

Well I do get it nam78_two Jan 2021 #59

Thanks for the thoughtful post edhopper Jan 2021 #62

Thanks for reading! nam78_two Jan 2021 #63

american media llashram Jan 2021 #61

But the stupidity of the MAGAs makes better headlines RainCaster Jan 2021 #65