After reading Prince Harry's book, it's pretty easy to surmise that our mainstream, beltway bubble, access addicted media is every bit a tabloid industry as the British press.
My need to be informed is outweighed by my need for sanity. I know the extremists are doing stupid, dangerous stuff, but the media focus on people like Boebert is more than I can stand.
The American media is failing in its duty to serve as a spotlight on wrongdoing and corruption. Instead, the American media is only interested in clicks, likes, shares, and dollars. The American media is, in large part, responsible for "President" Trump and the dumbing down of the electorate
Keep these media reviews coming. Yes, Morning Joe may have had it right but I watched as they promoted Trump on dumped on Hillary. Good Lord, now Mica is inviting Hillary to summits in Dubai. Hillary's message hasn't changed but the wind sure has shifted with the people who only care about making money on TV. After everything that was thrown at Hillary Clinton she still won the popular vote. How many time the talking heads said she was a bad candidate. The media coverage pushed that narrative constantly.
I'd love to know from Steve if he can recommend ANY honest media outlets...I haven't seen him on Nicolle Wallace's show for quite some time - not sure if he just chooses not to appear anymore? With fascism rising - it's important to support GOOD journalism - but where?
For general daily news, what’s wrong with NPR, PBS, and the BBC? The BBC journalists do not nod their heads and accept misinformation from their interviewees. They challenge it quite effectively.
And what about the superb investigative reporting of the Washington Post, New York Times-and even the New Yorker?
And I might add, the first half hour of Nicole Wallace Deadline: White House today (1/13) is a critically important discussion. As are many of her shows. I miss Steve’s well-turned golden flow of spot-on insights on that show and others.
Why did I survive intellectually during these years? Because I can distinguish theater from the real. The Camerota interview centered on one issue and one most important one: Should what a President says be held to a higher standard from the rest? Absolutely. Schlapp is pure grievance, BUT it is Shlapp who opened the door to Orban via CPAC. Abominable!
From the above clip of what Michelle Wolf said, it is what is expected from a comedian. Sarah Huckabee was the Donald Trump Administration PRESS SECRETARY. Michelle Wolf was ROASTING. Donald Trump lied. His press secretary lied. Michelle Wolf is a comedian. Camerota was overpowered by two men going at it. Camerota was centered. Cuomo and Schlapp?
A president MUST be held to a higher standard. I remember what is NOT theater. HE SAID THEN: "Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that face?" Carly Fiorina responded the one response that comes thundering down with punity. I THINK EVERY WOMAN IN THE COUNTRY UNDERSTOOD WHAT HE SAID... he whimpily responded the usual lie: "i think she is a beautiful woman," to shield his very flushy, moronic facial snapshot...
Sean Hannity and the SINO are material for Fox News. It is the cry of Viking Triumph, like the horned Insurrectionist with his grotesquely open mouth growling. It is the journalism I respect that must take them down. Now. To stop the man who looked at women like walking pussies; who attacked them to their face with terms like ‘blood coming out of her wherever’ to co-host Megyn Kelly during a Republican Presidential Debate, and did not fail to mock Mika Brzezinski; a man who likes his women's bodies CORRECTED; THE man who now has revived his vicious attacks against those who call out his desecration of America's Constitution and the Rule of Law, and continues to collect words to then spew them out with new meanings like targets, returning the country to the reality of threats against public figures who speak the truth about him and his official enablers in the House. "Abominable" is a weak word to describe a grave moment that will take a moral uprising beyond what women have been doing with much more effect and action.
And we must not confuse gravity with grievance. The comment from Schlapp, the one where it took him a thousand times to review Donald Trump's performance and actorial interpretation of how a disabled person acts. A thousand times to understand! Today, this Schlapp scurrilously hides under his wife's protective skirts from revelations fitted more for pornographic outlets then what should be the news of the day, Leader Hakeem Jeffries enumerating the multiple investigations that George Santos, a Trump-McCarthy man, is undergoing at this moment in time. From the clean side of the floor in the House.
Is there a path we can walk on to solve this issue? I agree this "symbiotic relationship" is a great threat to democracy. How to we break that relationship and steer ourselves back? How do we get our local news back?
Let me get this straight: a black female comedian outraged conservatives with a bit about Trump, Sanders and abortion, at a private dinner at which she was paid to do….exactly that. That’s not the outrage. The outrage is CNN having Schlapp - a lobbyist! Not a pundit or expert or anything - on not one but two programs just so they can all show outrage. Really? Get your outrage from the left and the right, hot and cold, from a woman and a man, and that’s todays media. The guy who ran CNN at the time created “Trump” while he ran NBC and thought the addled shameless dumbass could read a script well enough ton pay everyone handsomely. At CNN the script is the same, the “actors” are different.
I agree, our media outlets are in disarray and need overhauling. I think the rise of smartphones has made America dumber and more cynical of all media outlets. We are bombarded with fake outrage and real stories are swiftly passed on because it will not bring the same ratings. I have completely given up on our local newspaper. It has lost me as a subscriber because of their lack of interesting coverage or diversity in topics each week. If I wanted the junk in newsprint I would look to grocery store shelves by the cash register for one of the sensational publications. I choose not to name them by name but all know the type of print I am referring to. Smartphones have destroyed the age of newspapers. It is a shame but it was inevitable because people are more interested in likes on social media than they are on actual news. I believe the major news outlets have become lazy and instead of investigating they rely on press releases to fill their pages.
It is a parasitology of codependency that has been simmering, bubbling since the eradication of the Fairness Doctrine, the privatization of media enclaves and the pervasive employment of the firehose of falsehood, unleashed in an unrelenting torrent on the legions of the undiscerning.
Watching that whole Matt Schlapp interview felt like watching him pummel Trump's crotch on tv for 26 minutes. These pundits, cult members, henchmen, not sure what term is fitting because I can't think of one that embodies all the atrocious traits they possess. It's truly horrifying. And there's just no shame. None. How do people get that way?
If I never hear another pundit in a forum such as the Politicology podcast make the condescending observation that the topic under discussion isn't of interest to regular Americans, who are only worried about gas prices, it will be too soon.
Spot on. Thank you. I will say that the pearl clutching on the Left fuels the right wing and media craziness. It seems to me the ideology is held hostage by a need to please and a desperate attempt to be morally superior.
Al Franken, Kathy Griffin, Katie Hill etc.
It’s usually a knee jerk reaction that just fuels the media insanity.
After reading Prince Harry's book, it's pretty easy to surmise that our mainstream, beltway bubble, access addicted media is every bit a tabloid industry as the British press.
My need to be informed is outweighed by my need for sanity. I know the extremists are doing stupid, dangerous stuff, but the media focus on people like Boebert is more than I can stand.
The American media is failing in its duty to serve as a spotlight on wrongdoing and corruption. Instead, the American media is only interested in clicks, likes, shares, and dollars. The American media is, in large part, responsible for "President" Trump and the dumbing down of the electorate
Keep these media reviews coming. Yes, Morning Joe may have had it right but I watched as they promoted Trump on dumped on Hillary. Good Lord, now Mica is inviting Hillary to summits in Dubai. Hillary's message hasn't changed but the wind sure has shifted with the people who only care about making money on TV. After everything that was thrown at Hillary Clinton she still won the popular vote. How many time the talking heads said she was a bad candidate. The media coverage pushed that narrative constantly.
I'd love to know from Steve if he can recommend ANY honest media outlets...I haven't seen him on Nicolle Wallace's show for quite some time - not sure if he just chooses not to appear anymore? With fascism rising - it's important to support GOOD journalism - but where?
For general daily news, what’s wrong with NPR, PBS, and the BBC? The BBC journalists do not nod their heads and accept misinformation from their interviewees. They challenge it quite effectively.
And what about the superb investigative reporting of the Washington Post, New York Times-and even the New Yorker?
And I might add, the first half hour of Nicole Wallace Deadline: White House today (1/13) is a critically important discussion. As are many of her shows. I miss Steve’s well-turned golden flow of spot-on insights on that show and others.
Why did I survive intellectually during these years? Because I can distinguish theater from the real. The Camerota interview centered on one issue and one most important one: Should what a President says be held to a higher standard from the rest? Absolutely. Schlapp is pure grievance, BUT it is Shlapp who opened the door to Orban via CPAC. Abominable!
From the above clip of what Michelle Wolf said, it is what is expected from a comedian. Sarah Huckabee was the Donald Trump Administration PRESS SECRETARY. Michelle Wolf was ROASTING. Donald Trump lied. His press secretary lied. Michelle Wolf is a comedian. Camerota was overpowered by two men going at it. Camerota was centered. Cuomo and Schlapp?
A president MUST be held to a higher standard. I remember what is NOT theater. HE SAID THEN: "Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that face?" Carly Fiorina responded the one response that comes thundering down with punity. I THINK EVERY WOMAN IN THE COUNTRY UNDERSTOOD WHAT HE SAID... he whimpily responded the usual lie: "i think she is a beautiful woman," to shield his very flushy, moronic facial snapshot...
Sean Hannity and the SINO are material for Fox News. It is the cry of Viking Triumph, like the horned Insurrectionist with his grotesquely open mouth growling. It is the journalism I respect that must take them down. Now. To stop the man who looked at women like walking pussies; who attacked them to their face with terms like ‘blood coming out of her wherever’ to co-host Megyn Kelly during a Republican Presidential Debate, and did not fail to mock Mika Brzezinski; a man who likes his women's bodies CORRECTED; THE man who now has revived his vicious attacks against those who call out his desecration of America's Constitution and the Rule of Law, and continues to collect words to then spew them out with new meanings like targets, returning the country to the reality of threats against public figures who speak the truth about him and his official enablers in the House. "Abominable" is a weak word to describe a grave moment that will take a moral uprising beyond what women have been doing with much more effect and action.
And we must not confuse gravity with grievance. The comment from Schlapp, the one where it took him a thousand times to review Donald Trump's performance and actorial interpretation of how a disabled person acts. A thousand times to understand! Today, this Schlapp scurrilously hides under his wife's protective skirts from revelations fitted more for pornographic outlets then what should be the news of the day, Leader Hakeem Jeffries enumerating the multiple investigations that George Santos, a Trump-McCarthy man, is undergoing at this moment in time. From the clean side of the floor in the House.
Is there a path we can walk on to solve this issue? I agree this "symbiotic relationship" is a great threat to democracy. How to we break that relationship and steer ourselves back? How do we get our local news back?
Let me get this straight: a black female comedian outraged conservatives with a bit about Trump, Sanders and abortion, at a private dinner at which she was paid to do….exactly that. That’s not the outrage. The outrage is CNN having Schlapp - a lobbyist! Not a pundit or expert or anything - on not one but two programs just so they can all show outrage. Really? Get your outrage from the left and the right, hot and cold, from a woman and a man, and that’s todays media. The guy who ran CNN at the time created “Trump” while he ran NBC and thought the addled shameless dumbass could read a script well enough ton pay everyone handsomely. At CNN the script is the same, the “actors” are different.
Right now I am just sickened by President Biden's file scandal .
I agree, our media outlets are in disarray and need overhauling. I think the rise of smartphones has made America dumber and more cynical of all media outlets. We are bombarded with fake outrage and real stories are swiftly passed on because it will not bring the same ratings. I have completely given up on our local newspaper. It has lost me as a subscriber because of their lack of interesting coverage or diversity in topics each week. If I wanted the junk in newsprint I would look to grocery store shelves by the cash register for one of the sensational publications. I choose not to name them by name but all know the type of print I am referring to. Smartphones have destroyed the age of newspapers. It is a shame but it was inevitable because people are more interested in likes on social media than they are on actual news. I believe the major news outlets have become lazy and instead of investigating they rely on press releases to fill their pages.
It is a parasitology of codependency that has been simmering, bubbling since the eradication of the Fairness Doctrine, the privatization of media enclaves and the pervasive employment of the firehose of falsehood, unleashed in an unrelenting torrent on the legions of the undiscerning.
Watching that whole Matt Schlapp interview felt like watching him pummel Trump's crotch on tv for 26 minutes. These pundits, cult members, henchmen, not sure what term is fitting because I can't think of one that embodies all the atrocious traits they possess. It's truly horrifying. And there's just no shame. None. How do people get that way?
If I never hear another pundit in a forum such as the Politicology podcast make the condescending observation that the topic under discussion isn't of interest to regular Americans, who are only worried about gas prices, it will be too soon.
Spot on. Thank you. I will say that the pearl clutching on the Left fuels the right wing and media craziness. It seems to me the ideology is held hostage by a need to please and a desperate attempt to be morally superior.
Al Franken, Kathy Griffin, Katie Hill etc.
It’s usually a knee jerk reaction that just fuels the media insanity.