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EndGOPPropaganda

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Mon Sep 3, 2018, 10:27 PM Sep 2018

Chuck Todd: Time For the Media to Fight for Truth [View all]

This is a GREAT article. Puts a lot of blame on Ailes and Drudge and Hannity. Which they richly deserve.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/569224/


It’s Time for the Press to Stop Complaining—And to Start Fighting Back
A nearly 50-year campaign of vilification, inspired by Fox News's Roger Ailes, has left many Americans distrustful of media outlets. Now, journalists need to speak up for their work.

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Some of the wealthiest members of the media are not reporters from mainstream outlets. Figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, and the trio of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham have attained wealth and power by exploiting the fears of older white people. They are thriving financially by exploiting the very same free-press umbrella they seem determined to undermine.

Much of the current hand-wringing about this rise in press bashing and delegitimization has been focused on the president, who—as every reporter in America sadly knows—has declared the press the “enemy of the people.” But, like much else in the Trump era, Donald Trump didn’t start this fire; he’s only spread it to a potentially more dangerous place.
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Chuck Todd Is A Sickness ConnorMarc Sep 2018 #1
He must have read some of his feedback Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #2
Chuck reads us. Best believe. Crutchez_CuiBono Sep 2018 #5
He really loves himself. Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #6
This IS him calling for end to bothsidesism. EndGOPPropaganda Sep 2018 #8
To early to agree. Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #9
AGH. Maybe you're right EndGOPPropaganda Sep 2018 #10
This piece is a great piece. EndGOPPropaganda Sep 2018 #7
Other than the old fair and balanced line Fox does not engage in that pretense. gordianot Sep 2018 #3
He has the right message. CentralMass Sep 2018 #4
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