2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFor the sake of what democracy we have left, the role the NY Times, the Washington Post
etc., have been playing in this election cycle needs to be exposed.
They are not a part of the 4th estate. They are surrogates for the Clinton campaign who will lie repeatedly to prop her up and tear down her opponent.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)The young people are not paying attention to them.
They will soon be out of business.
Impedimentus
(898 posts)They will disappear in the mud they have created sooner or later.
FEEL THE BERN - 2016
Demnorth
(68 posts)that you rely on?
HillareeeHillaraah
(685 posts)And a bit tea party like in its broad strokes.
BernieforPres2016
(3,017 posts)It is takes experienced reporters who can invest a lot of time in major stories and be reasonably compensated for it. The lack of investigative journalism is helping the 0.1%. Newsrooms don't have an adequate number of experienced reporters to cover city hall, state governments, Congress, etc. I don't think the Clintons could have gotten away with the Clinton Foundation 40 years ago.
msongs
(67,413 posts)snowy owl
(2,145 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)No mystery there.