Media Tracker (5 Viewers)

[SaintForLife]

I figured we needed a thread specifically about the media.

There was a very big correction recently by the Washington Post.


That story was supposedly "independently confirmed" by CNN, NBC News, USA Today, ABC News, & PBS News Hour. How could they all have gotten the quote wrong if they actually independently confirmed the story?






Why do all the errors always go in one political direction and not closer to 50/50?

 

[Optimus Prime]

The mainstream media is flabbergasted at Trump’s success in sweeping the Iowa caucuses, dominating the polls, and destroying all his rivals but Nikki Haley before Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.

CNN is awestruck, calling Trump’s “landslide victory in Iowa” a “stunning show of strength”.

The New York Times is dumbfounded, talking of an “expected Trump coronation” and also the “power of his political machine”.

Time magazine marvels at his “commanding position” to secure the Republican nomination, and that “nothing has slowed him down”.

The Washington Post’s Dan Balz writes that “the end of any real competition could come very soon”.

Headline after headline offers the same breathless, spellbound story: “Trump is dominating.” “Disciplined.” “Ruthless.” “Hugely effective.” “Remarkable.”

Earth to the mainstream media: this is dangerous nonsense.

Why should Trump’s dominance be surprising? He’s dominated the Republican party since 2016. He dominates by ridiculing opponents, blasting anyone who stands in his way, bullying, browbeating, and bellowing. The media eats it up. He’s outrageous and entertaining.

Trump’s success in last week’s Iowa caucuses wasn’t a “stunning show of strength”. It was a display of remarkable weakness. He got just 56,260 votes. There are 2,083,979 registered voters in Iowa. Fewer than 3% of Iowans voted for him.


According to an entrance poll, only 46% of the Republican caucus-goers considered themselves part of the Maga movement. Nearly 50% said they were not. Three-quarters of these non-Maga Republican voters opposed Trump.

Over 30% said they would not consider Trump fit to be president if he were convicted of a crime.

His performance in New Hampshire will probably reveal similar weaknesses.

What seems to be lost on the media is that Trump was president for four years. In effect, he’s the incumbent Republican president.

That’s not because he says he won the 2020 election. It’s because he was in fact president.

Former presidents have a huge advantage in their party’s primaries because they control their party apparatus. Presidents who have served just one term and seek the nomination for another are always re-nominated by their party, as was Trump in 2020 – and presumably will be again in 2024.

Of course Trump will be the Republican nominee. Trump was the party’s presumptive nominee before he even announced he was running again.……

The danger in the mainstream media’s awestruck coverage of Trump right now – making a big deal out of his winning the Iowa caucuses, dominating the polls, pushing out all rivals except Haley, and almost surely winning today’s New Hampshire primary – is that it creates a false impression that Trump is unstoppable, all the way through the general election.…..

Of course Trump is dominating the primaries. That doesn’t mean he’ll beat Biden | Robert Reich

Why is the media making such a big deal of this? Trump will be the nominee, but the general election is a different matter

www.theguardian.com

 

[MT15]

Shocker

 

[SaintForLife]

Shocker

Hilarious that Laura Loomer associate Ron is complaining about deceptively edited videos.

 

[MT15]

Why are you defending Fox? Nobody cares about Fuentes, he’s a Peice of work.

 

[SaintForLife]

Why are you defending Fox? Nobody cares about Fuentes, he’s a Peice of work.

Just calling out the hypocrite Filipkowski for being guilty of what he accused Fox News of.

 

[MT15]

Just calling out the hypocrite Filipkowski for being guilty of what he accused Fox News of.

What Fox did. They did it. They’re media, which is what this thread is about. We already talked about the Fuentes clip and it’s over and done with. This is new.

Whataboutism is all you got though.

 

[SaintForLife]

What Fox did. They did it. They’re media, which is what this thread is about. We already talked about the Fuentes clip and it’s over and done with. This is new.

Whataboutism is all you got though.

And your boy, the new Rupar, got caught selectively editing a video to make it seem like he was talking about DeSantis when he was talking about Kayne.

 

[MT15]

And your boy, the new Rupar, got caught selectively editing a video to make it seem like he was talking about DeSantis when he was talking about Kayne.

Once again, you don’t hold the media you consume to any standards at all. Why should you point out the same incident over and over?

 

[SaintForLife]

Once again, you don’t hold the media you consume to any standards at all. Why should you point out the same incident over and over?

I don't watch Fox News or any corporate media news except for local news.

 

[MT15]

I don't watch Fox News or any corporate media news except for local news.

Well, there’s that phrase again. Meaningless, but there it is.

 

[MT15]

This is why we need fact checkers. They don’t censor anyone, they cannot censor anyone even if they wanted to. They will, however, expose bull shirt. And we need that.

 

[MT15]

Big shock, the lies right wing media tell about “open borders” is actually contributing to the migrant crisis. We need fact checkers, clearly. There are too many lies to get all of them.

 

[SaintForLife]

Well, there’s that phrase again. Meaningless, but there it is.

Media that's under control of a corporation. Pretty simple to understand.

 

[SaintForLife]

It's a wonder why the LA Times had to layoff so many people.

 

[MT15]

Media that's under control of a corporation. Pretty simple to understand.

So that would include the NY Post, correct? Yet you post them relentlessly because they lie in such a way as to support your biases. You don’t care about corporate control, you only care about your narrative. You’re the biggest partisan I’ve ever seen, honestly. There isn’t any action by Trump you won’t defend, even forcing himself on women. And there isn’t any lie against Biden or other Dems you won’t amplify to suit your own biases.

 

[MT15]

OAN somehow obtained passwords of Smartmatic employees and sent them to Sidney Powell. Thus indicating possible criminal activity from the network with ties to Russia.

Pro-Trump network OAN execs may have ‘engaged in criminal activities’ while promoting 2020 election lies, Smartmatic alleges | CNN Business

In the wake of the 2020 election, the president of the far-right network One America News sent a potentially explosive email to former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, with a spreadsheet claiming to contain passwords of employees from the voting technology company Smartmatic, according to...

www.cnn.com

 

[SaintForLife]

 

[Optimus Prime]

King Charles was just diagnosed with cancer

He is starting treatment

He is scaling back his duties but not as much as his doctors would like

That’s really all we know

That lack of information hasn’t stopped CNN from airing non stop coverage for the past 90 minutes