2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCurtis
(348 posts)I'm not gonna hold my breath
murielm99
(30,741 posts)the 2000 election. If they had reported honestly then, Dubya would never have gotten close enough to Gore to allow the Supremes to award the Presidency to that POS.
Touchè
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)All I want to see from the media is more reporting and pushback on Trump's lies like we saw today when they actually got pissed off at him. How hard was it to do your jobs?
Not so bad, was it?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)uponit7771
(90,339 posts)wishstar
(5,269 posts)Had they (and the hypocritical craven Repub politicians) forcefully called it out and exposed it as racist from the start, it would not have gained credibility to the point that recent polls still shows majority of Repubs and vast majority of Trump supporter still believe the lies.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Like when Trumpco conned them into free press coverage for his newest egomanical structure.
(As an event planner, I was laughing my ass off when the backdrop for his self-congratulatory speech fell down.)
Demsrule86
(68,576 posts)I don't know if it is ratings or ideology...but it is dishonest and many so called journalist or even commentators have lost all credibility.