Sweetleaf wrote:
Mikah wrote:
Love the way he turned the media's own "fake news" weapon against them.
What is this obsession some right wingers have with 'the media'? you guys talk about it like its a collective organization with a specific agenda. Lol most media outlets are for profit, they just want to spread about juicy stories, exaggerations exist in both right wing and left leaning media outlets. The media isn't an organized collective with a particular political agenda, media outlets are largely businesses out to make money and get high ratings.
Do you read the news, do you watch it? If you don't notice the left wing bias by the mainstream media in the US then either you don't want notice or you're just taking somebodies word for it, you define yourself as left wing but not left wing like the other left wingers which to me is seems pretty convoluted and indicative of you either poorly defining yourself or evidence of cognitive dissonance with your currently held views. Also, please, leftists whine more than anybody about the media. There has been basically a moral panic with these chicken littles about Drudge, Breitbart, Fox News, etc for years now! Hello! It was in this election that MSM dropped all vestiges of be objective and threw out all the rules of journalism, they admitted this themselves and have been exposed by Wikileaks for the partisan hacks they are. Did you read Wikileaks?
The media has always been important when it comes to politics, when other countries do what out media did in this cycle it isn't called a free and fair election. 'And we have to lecture others about democratic institutions?