Why the Mainstream Media Really Sucks

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

An excuse to bumpity bump to top of next page.

Originally Posted by erimir

I'm I missing something or has the Russian bounty story disappeared from the NYT homepage already? Not even a follow up story about the reactions and the denials?

— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 28, 2020

Note that Trump's reaction to the email story got front page placement. Biden's reaction to an actual scandal, A16. pic.twitter.com/HB8eVCOaBH

— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 28, 2020

The point is, of course, not that the Hillary email story deserved no coverage at all.

But the president ignoring and offering more benefits to Russia while they're paying people to kill US soldiers seems like a bigger story than email server management.

(I can also grant that coronavirus and other issues are big stories too... so maybe neither scandal deserves to cover the full front page... but A16? Nothing on the front page?)

Don't get distracted by whatever is inevitably being planned to distract from this story https://t.co/vW1GoPhm2l

— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) June 27, 2020

Who knew? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[slimshady2357]

fuuuuuuuuuuck the NYT

The NYT, which would not use the words when Ted Yoho spoke them, uses them tonight to quote @AOC--and it describes HER behavior, not his, as "disruptive" and a "norm-shattering moment," one that it implies is about "amplifying her own brand."

JFC. pic.twitter.com/8LR7DV3uc0

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) July 24, 2020

[JoeP]

In their defence, she is an uppity woman.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

This is a Qanon rally being covered in the local press as though it was a legitimate event and not a far right conspiracy gathering. https://t.co/cwJv1f7AeO

— ������������ (@kaputtkabutt) August 1, 2020

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free - Current Affairs

[The Lone Ranger]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free - Current Affairs

Good reporting is expensive to produce. Lies and bullshit are cheap to produce.

[Basset Hound]

Remember, it was this mainstream media who gushed over the Rump for thirty years, telling everybody what a business whiz he was, telling us what a genius he was.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Basset Hound

telling us what a genius he was.

Repeating someone else's lies is even easier than making up your own.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Thrad

“Govt lawyers made the unusual move”

good grief, Trump era journalism is broken

what the DOJ is doing here *has no precedence in American history*; https://t.co/ztDDPO0XaK

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) September 9, 2020

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

http://www.someguywithawebsite.com/lol/

I have lived my entire life in a media narrative that Republicans are simply not supposed to face any consequences for their actions and what we have been witnessing for the last 48 hours is the result of a media completely unequipped to handle exactly that happening. I think that’s why there’s such a cognitive dissonance between how punditry is reacting to this versus, well, basically the rest of the planet. People are done. They are fucking done with this bullshit.

The pieces are rapidly fitting together to the conclusion that the administration, their existing ignorance to all of this aside, likely went to the debate knowing they may be exposed, hid it, and then didn’t tell Biden. I know I’m screaming at a brick wall when I say this, but how is there a partisan debate about something like that. That is criminal recklessness. That is at best incompetence and at worst actual insanity. But because of the media narrative I have lived in my entire life, the reaction from our elite punditry is to bow their heads and offer well wishes to these violent, criminal lunatics we all know did this to themselves, and to us.

Read the whole thing.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

"falls from a bridge" pic.twitter.com/QDZ26bbr73

— jordan (@JordanUhl) October 3, 2020

[Stephen Maturin]

The real question, of course, is how come Biden is being so "cagey" about his health? Cuz, you know, both sides.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Salt

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

CNN is blaming Pelosi for stimulus deal

NYT is reporting a Joe Biden But his emails story provided by Steve Bannon

NBC is giving trump a townhall the same exact night as Biden's town hall

We already know about Fox

Its up to us alone to remove trump

— BlackWomenAreKryptoniteToGOP (@battletested5) October 14, 2020

[Sock Puppet]

Biden's margin is getting too wide. Bad for ratings, or whatever the fuck they're calling how they reduce people to numbers these days. Our beloved media conglomerates will do anything to make it a closer race, up to and including destroying the country via another 4 years of this shit.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Voter to President Trump at #TrumpTownHall: “You’re so handsome when you smile." pic.twitter.com/KgJThAtAQg

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 16, 2020

[lisarea]

Good lord, that's repulsive. This makes it a little better, though.

Paulette Dale Tells Trump He’s Handsome. But She's Voting Biden. | Miami New Times

Still.



I like that the closest thing we have to a trump smiley is someone playing a trumpet (). I just used the LOL Stossel as a stand-in.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by lisarea

I like that the closest thing we have to a trump smiley is someone playing a trumpet ().

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Wild how CBS has spent the night crying about Big Meanie Biden calling bullshit questions about bullshit NY Post stories bullshit.

[erimir]

"Sure, our reporting has found massive inconsistencies and red flags in this story, and it doesn't even prove what it's insinuated to prove, but nonetheless, we insist that Biden answer questions about it and bring focus onto the story!"

I mean, at least they had the courtesy not to hound Elizabeth Warren with questions about her BDSM sex dungeon, because Rudy Giuliani is somehow a more respectable source than Jacob Wohl, but just because Giuliani made up some obvious bullshit doesn't mean you have to do this.

Meanwhile, they can't even ratfuck properly:

Imagine sharing this as some indication of Biden’s purported deficiencies. pic.twitter.com/2o3ZSqMDB3

— M. Carrie Allan (@Carrie_the_Red) October 17, 2020

Oh god, the horror, he loves his son and doesn't give up on him. I guess Trump and Giuliani think this makes Biden weak. Trump's kids are deranged like him, and Giuliani's daughter hates him, so I guess they would find proper parenting strange.

[Crumb]

"You might not like it, but it's smart politics." - PressThink

[Jerome]

Biden is to Trump as McCain is to Obama.

The patsy. It is literally a TV reality show.

[Jerome]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

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So, in Baltimore, dud, as Mayor, literally 'lost' a billion dollars from the Baltimore City Schools. Just misapprehend.

So, like, they, like, put him on local TV, and like, he had a cut-off shirt, did play in a band, his arms where sort if guns,,, they elected him Governor.

He ran against Clinton for President in 2016.\

[Jerome]

Schools are a slush fund. They prey on your instincts to care for children.

[Stephen Maturin]

I've always suspected that The New Yorker is something of a privately funded welfare system for incompetents who, but for their New Yorker jerbs, would be performing sexual favors for methamphetamine and/or leeching off taxpayers in perpetuity.

Jeffrey Toobin is a goddamn moron. His legal commentary is the worst of the worst, essentially guaranteed to be wrong. That's been true for decades. He's a top notch example of how easily trash can rise to the top in the media biz.

In a recent Zoom conference "featuring New Yorker all-stars," ol' Jeff actually managed to catch himself on camera doing the five-knuckle shuffle:

The New Yorker has suspended reporter Jeffrey Toobin for masturbating on a Zoom video chat between members of the New Yorker and WNYC radio last week. Toobin says he did not realize his video was on.

“I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers,” Toobin told Motherboard.

“I believed I was not visible on Zoom. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video,” he added.

The dipshit statements above suggest that Jeff punches the clown while on the job all the time, but managed to keep others from seeing it until this latest incident.