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Marthe48

(16,994 posts)
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 02:09 PM Aug 2016

Campaign coverage just sucks

Even though Hillary Clinton is leading, has a stable convention bump, all the headlines are still all Trump, all the time. I'm tired of
A) turning the channel as soon as the evening news starts, because Trump will be the headline, even if he is the engineer on a train wreck B) having to read the crawlers to see what Hillary Clinton is doing, saying, planning.

It is as if the MSM thinks that any coverage of Trump will convince people to vote for him. I don't understand why they are hellbent on covering somebody who is such a lackluster candidate.

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Campaign coverage just sucks (Original Post) Marthe48 Aug 2016 OP
I find the coverage to be shallow and that irritates me. Yonnie3 Aug 2016 #1
Yes, MSM does not cover Clinton and her events UCmeNdc Aug 2016 #2
Totally agree! unitedwethrive Aug 2016 #3

Yonnie3

(17,452 posts)
1. I find the coverage to be shallow and that irritates me.
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 02:36 PM
Aug 2016

Yes it does suck because MSM never seems to cover anything in depth. They just get their panel of talking heads and spend most of the time on opinion rather than fact. In other word, the facts they report are the fact that someone had an opinion.

I think all the coverage of Trump is helping the electorate decide NOT to vote for him. I don't think MSM gives a hoot about helping a candidate, just how much advertising revenue they can generate and Trump coverage has been working for them.

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