It's time for the media to admit that Hillary Clinton is popular

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22. The media feels it's not their job to report facts....

It started after Vietnam and Watergate.

The right-wing convinced themselves that the ONLY reason we lost in Vietnam was because of losing popular support at home. Same goes for Watergate, they kept repeating to themselves the mantra "ALL presidents were crooked, Nixon just got caught" until they believed it themselves. Both of those events they blamed on the media. They resolved to never let it happen again so they infiltrated the media.

The media used to broadcast a speech by the president and then fact check them. Reagan came along and would spew so many lies and distortions that the fact checking segment often ran longer than the speech. The media changed its formula. Instead of fact checking they abdicated their responsibility to the public and put on a democrat to respond. This would later become the "50/50" "he said/she said" "Let the audience decide" NONSENSE we have today with smash mouth politics performing verbal WWF for infotainment.