Seth Abramson on the deplorable state of the news media coverage.

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Link to tweet

[Me.]

1. "limiting Trump coverage to only what he *does*"

exactly!

[Joinfortmill]

2. Watch Rachel Maddow - Truth Teller

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3. Agree. And maybe Lawrence O.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. It's almost as if eyeballs and ad revenue is enough to normalize the death of democracy.

[Corgigal]

5. It's almost

makes you believe, that those millionaires talking head think nothing bad could ever happen to them. See I’m on TV. The creatures that run the networks, who make even more, believe it can’t all go poof, because rule of law. America.

Oh, wait.

[Kitchari]

6. K&R. n/t

[Takket]

7. i think one of the biggest problem with the M$M is they don't do any investigating of their own

anymore.

When i was young i remember the national news would always have one someone from a government agency with their face and voice blurred that was exposing some sort of corruption. now all they do is pass on statements made by the heads of agencies and then have a talking head roundtable about what it all means.

Why are we not hearing directly from people in the DOJ about how Barr has completely corrupted their jobs?

There are a few indy journalists out there digging and doing great jobs but the problem is it is hard to hear from them. Their voices are limited. They don't have access to the entire country. I need the nightly national news programs with their broad audience to be the ones reporting on this stuff. get people on camera even if they want their identity concealed. let us actually hear from those in the government about how our country is becoming less safe every day and our laws are being ignored or worse manipulated to oppress drumpf's opponents.

[DAMANgoldberg]

8. 2 Words

Dan Rather.

What was done to his distinguished news anchor/reporter career was unspeakable. And a clarion call as well as a warning to anyone who would afflict the comfortable what can happen to them. Granted, he is still doing work and has become an elder voice of reason for all seasons, but he should have been given the manner to go out on his own terms.

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9. Rachel and Lawrence are trying.

Not nearly enough people are listening. Even less would ever take any action.

[DAMANgoldberg]

11. And doing quite a good job.

I don't have cable or a cable equivalent, so I can't see their nighly work except for web clips. However, this needs to happen more.

I just wished CNN would have some of those independent journalists on, such as Greg Palast, Caroline Orr, Abby Martin, even Jordan Chariton. There are others, but they should get at least weekend coverage. Sort of a reboot of the CNN World Report from the early days of Ted's network, which btw will celebrate 40 years on the air this year.

[lame54]

10. CNN still has Rick Santorum on EVERY DAY...

Time to purge ALL Trump apologists

To manufacture an argument is just gaslighting