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2016 Postmortem

Garrett78

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3. And I suppose the media will go along with the false equivalency.

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Sun Jan 1, 2017, 05:04 PM

Jan 2017

Must disregard critical thinking. Must stir up controversy and avoid "liberal media" tag.

Must obsess over spectacle and promote false equivalencies out of some twisted sense of what constitutes "balance."

Still the best article I've read yet related to the media's coverage of the 2016 campaign: http://www.newsweek.com/neil-buchanan-cruel-crooked-caricature-doomed-clinton-520125.

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False equivalent ..., hacking elections et hacking debates...LMAO [View all] pbmus Jan 2017 OP

He got more debate questions from Ailes than she got MattP Jan 2017 #1

Trump didn't address the questions anyway... Blanks Jan 2017 #2

I've never seen one candidate so thoroughly dominate the other in every single debate. Garrett78 Jan 2017 #4

It is... Blanks Jan 2017 #7

And I suppose the media will go along with the false equivalency. Garrett78 Jan 2017 #3

Thanks... pbmus Jan 2017 #5

tragic comedy to make such a ludicrous comparison triron Jan 2017 #6