2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I really don't understand how Trump is even competitive in this race [View all]Bill USA
(6,436 posts)has in large part been so successful because M$M has not been reporting on the GOP's undermining of Government and demonizing Hillary.
Example: When Comey appeared before a Congressional Committee M$M reported Comey's answering trey gowdey saying a number of Hillary's emails had classified info in them. what M$M did NOT report is that the Dept of State did not and still does not consider the information in those emails classified. What M$M did not report is that different agencies of the Government do not always agree on what information should be classified and what information should not be classified.
What M$M did NOT report on is the questioning of Comey by Rep. Matt Cartwright about the lack of classified headers on any of the emails purported to contain classified info. Comey had to admit that not one of the emails had a classified header on it. Comey also in response to a question from Cartwright agreed that it was a reasonable inference for Sec. Clinton to make that since there were no Classified headers on any of those emails that there was no classified information in them. In other words Sec Clinton did NOT lie when she said she didn't send or receive anything marked classified. NOT reported by M$M.
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also see: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/7/1546038/-Comey-tanks-key-GOP-talking-point-admits-classified-materials-were-not-properly-marked
Example: A GOP toady at CBS news once asked Hillary in an interview if she has always told the truth to the public. I never heard anybody from GOP-TV ask any of the chairmen of the 8 or nine Benghazi Inquiry committees if these inquiries were "really a search for the Truth?"
Example: During the first six years of the Obama administration the Democrats were in the majority in the Senate. During that time the Repugnants set and then broke their own records for filibustering. But throughout that period the 'filibuster' was verboten on M$M. They never reported to their viewers that the GOP was filibustering every one of Obama's jobs bills. Now, they report on how much people are disatisfied with the Government's inabililty to get anything done. M$M will report that the Democrats accuse the GOPers of obstruction. But they never mentioned how Repugnants were obstructing everthing Obama and the Democrats were trying to do for the country and to speed the recovery from the Trickle down - deregulation disaster.
Note that 90% of the media is controlled by 6 corporations. http://www.morriscreative.com/6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america/