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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDear MSM, You are doing it again. Stop it! During the 2016 election campaign, you all gave thAt
insane creature currently soiling OUR House what amounted to several billion dollars worth of free air time. You spent hours showing empty podiums, with endless chatter. You spent so much time covering his insanity, his lies and hysteria, that one could be forgiven for not knowing that there was another candidate in the race. And we won't even talk at this point about your disgusting handling of the "debates" (the "moderating" was pathetically sycophantic).
You are doing the same thing right now. You KNOW that his daily ego-massaging "briefings are nothing BUT campaign rallies. Yrt, you are treating them as though they were legitimate news, giving him hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free campaign air time. Stop it. Just stop feeding his insatiable ego, his narcissism, his lies and hatred. Stop it. Even having a real-time fact-checker will not solve the problem. Just STOP IT!!!
Wearily,
royable
(1,264 posts)doc03
(35,325 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)Stevegberg
(80 posts)jrthin
(4,835 posts)for democracy but he's good for ratings.
DENVERPOPS
(8,810 posts)to help him in any and every way they can. EIGHTY PLUS PERCENT OF ALL U.S. MEDIA IS OWNED BY REPUBLICANS....
They are ecstatic these days with their performance. We are one millimeter away from a Corporate Fascist Tyranny.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)... family members who are being killed by CV19
42bambi
(1,753 posts)time he opens his lying mouth we have another free Dem ad. Day after day, Trump is destroying his own re-election chances by showing his true colors.
niyad
(113,259 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)at $1000/hr x 15 hrs/day x 1200 radio stations
and that's independent of other opinions - 95% of it is a chorus following limbaugh's lead - fed to him by think tanks here and in russia
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)How many of his base have changed their "minds"?
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)More and more are turning him off!
Rebl2
(13,492 posts)that ugly face comes on I turn the channel. I think a lot of people are doing the same, so that cant be making them money. My local NBC channel didnt ever show him today at the supposed daily briefing. Figured he wasnt having one, but switched over to msnbc and there they were. Quickly turned back to my local channel.
mgardener
(1,816 posts)Who reward a obnoxious behaviour in a child just to shut them up.
SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)Every time that walking cesspool opens his mouth they think they have to cover it, lest he say something so important about the virus crisis the world would stop turning on it's axis if they missed it. All he ever does is lie, lie, LIE incessantly, and tell everyone what a terrific job he's been doing.
Cease. Desist. If he ever does say anything of importance borrow the feed from TrumpTV.
Stevegberg
(80 posts)Its his oxygen, after all.
Midnight Writer
(21,745 posts)budkin
(6,699 posts)The country be damned!
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Beartracks
(12,809 posts)denbot
(9,899 posts)Apologies to Yogi, who was and is the only New York Yankee ever worth quoting. Id love to hear what he would have said about The Dump had he lived to be 105.
spudspud
(511 posts)JeaneRaye
(402 posts)I don't know how TV ratings happen; I mean, do "they" just somehow know when your TV is on or not? I have just started recently having my TV on for some time before Trump appears for his daily BS session and as soon as he appears, "click", I turn off my TV, in hopes that many other people do the same. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who knows how ratings happen and how to affect them. Wouldn't that be great, if we could just all turn off our TV's at one time and make the news channels quit covering that A-hole?! I have actually been watching Governor Cuomo regularly since I believe he is telling the truth and he is a soothing and calming voice to the public. I believe that is what we need right now.
live love laugh
(13,100 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Meanwhile DU suits me along with various links that appear.
Of course they love a tight race and will create that with goons like Kornacki
Peregrine Took
(7,413 posts)but then he and his co-owners pulled the plug after a while and then I didn't like him so much.
Seemed to get too much into the money gettin' business for me.
rwsanders
(2,596 posts)interview, but won't stick with an important project unless it is profitable.
Maybe not the best comparison, but reminds me of the way Larry Ellison ruined the America's Cup because he was using NASCAR as a model for making it profitable (killed a guy so he knew he was on the right track). I liked it better when it was a game that drove billionaires to bankruptcy.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Is when I began to watch Ali Velshi. He left a successful show on CNN. Asked why he he went to a fledgling he said, Because I want to report real stories!
Then AL sold to Aljazeera. The corporate world drove them out of this country.
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)10 minutes daily with the Doctors to brief us is all that is necessary... anytime trump is there, networks should cut away...
I was watching periodically, hoping to see the moment that trump actually imploded...
...the reporter asking about "Tiger King" is absolutely when these briefings 'jumped the shark' ENOUGH!! STOP IT ALREADY!
llmart
(15,536 posts)Now, have you sent this on to the networks? Is there a petition people can sign that would get sent to the networks with all the people who want them to stop covering the blithering idiot?
niyad
(113,259 posts)llmart
(15,536 posts)I know that I emailed our local news station and told them I tuned into them to get all the local news and not have to be assaulted by a political campaign speech every day. Two days ago I turned on the local news at 6 PM and the main broadcaster said that there was important local news and weather to report and that they would not be covering the blowhard's speech and they said if anyone was interested, they could get it online.
I was so pleased. They did the same yesterday. Maybe more people are contacting them telling them to stop the nonsense. This morning, Good Morning America had only Dr. Fauci on.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)They have only been showing portions for a week now!
llmart
(15,536 posts)I don't have cable so never see CNN (which is fine by me). After the way he treats their reporters, I'm surprised they'd ever televise him again unless it was if he was resigning/dying/going to jail.
Varaddem
(432 posts)Let the commentator go off on a tangent like Trump does.
Im picturing Sandra B. Starting each retort with OK princess...
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Are they trying to encourage us to make excuses for and love being abused by our abuser?
I have seen only a handful of realistic, scathing reporting on what the Picture of Dorian Trump really looks like. I have only seen a smattering of depictions of just how nude this pseudo-Emperor is, and yes, I know that's a disgusting thought in itself.
I have seen a softening of words and benefit of the doubt writing and reportage, when the power of the pen should be shaving the orange fuzz off of the top of this dictators bloated head.
Something is rotten in Denmark, as they used to say. Sucking up, or what?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)He has a record now, people have seen things about him. He had no track record in politics in 2016 and the media did a shitty job of looking into the intimate details of his business record. Also, in 2016, he was able to accuse the media and get away totally with it, now rational people see that behavior as deflection.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...ceaselessly fawned over him.
At the same time treating the worst rumors about Hillary Clinton as breaking hard news with never ending coverage about her fucking emails.
I fully expect them to do so again.
Did Joe Biden put his arm around a lady in 1979?
WE have to be the media.
As always, Donald Trump is an idiot ans an ass hat.
#notmypresident
RESIST
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)ooky
(8,922 posts)pink
(497 posts)that the journalists show more aggression. If he insults the journo, or starts to interrogate them, they should all get up and walk out. Also he may be president by title but not by actions. They are currently showing him too much courtesy.
pansypoo53219
(20,972 posts)Mike Niendorff
(3,459 posts)Because this is still critically important.
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