Ironically, the press did fail epically, just not in the way Trump is claiming. The press failed in vetting Trump during the election and the country is still suffering the consequences. However, even that trip-and-stumble was outdone by the recent press pratfall of accepting Barr at his word and shouting âTotal Exonerationâ on their front pages.
The press* has a lot to answer for. They are deeply responsible for the current state of the nation. But they didnât lie about Mueller.
*Blanket term that unfortunately lumps the good in with the bad and the mediocre.
Thereâs an easy way to find out who is correct about this. Release the full report.
What kind of response is that, Tapper? Seems like your line of questioning should have been pretty simple: âMr. Mulvaney, have you read the Mueller report? No? Then shut up about who got things wrong.â
IMHO, even the stories the press âgot wrongâ are in limbo until we see the Mueller Report.
Not true about the press not vetting Trump, Mother Jones had a seriers called The Trump Files of more than 70 articles on him. You just had to look, but the MSM wanted a horserace to sell papers and we got a jackass out of it.
Any defense against journalism by the Trump administration has to be taken with a ton of salt.
Mr Mulvaney. If you donât like the current media, wait until historians tell the story of the Trump Administration and your place in it.
Really. The failure of the press at this point is that they (some) engage with the the false narrative that Barr has presented. Rather than âfight backâ against the sophistry regurgitated by the Republican echosphere, the media would be mightily rewarded if they got one of those âMueller teams membersâ to show their work directly to the public.
Any journalist speaking with a Trump administration official who doesnât ask âWhereâs the report?â is failing journalism, full stop.
Remember who OWNS âThe Pressâ.
They got exactly what they wanted in Trump: A constant Outrage Machine that drives their subscriptions and page-hits, thus increasing their ad revenue, AND a massive gift tax-cut to the corporations that OWN THEM while at the same time providing endless air-time to the pundits who are building their careers on his âreality showâ actions.
A Win-WIn-Win that they DO NOT want to see end.
Once you understand this, it all makes sense.
As I said,
*[The press is a] Blanket term that unfortunately lumps the good in with the bad and the mediocre.
Mother Jones and other outlets did extensive vetting, but ask the average American if theyâve ever heard of Mother Jones and you will get a blank stare. The major outlets failed the American people, and succeeded per the arguments laid out by @khaaannn.
âComplicating the issue is the broad definition of the news media circa 2019, encompassing everything from painstakingly sourced investigative storiesâ
(not by (AP)of course)
" to overheated tweets" ( Our fellow âjournosâ at CBS and ABC doing tip top work on this angle)
âto opinionated pundits.â
((AP) prides itself on having no opinion other than that of writing down and promulgating GOP talking points. Donât worry America, we stalwart journos are ever vigilant and spend at least 10 minutes a day typing things in between sips of skim-milk latte and bites of zwiebacks)
Mother Jones is great
Spy also has archived a great series of articles on 45* 's salad days in NYC, they are a good read
spot on
Jake Tapper:
âOther than the people in the media on the left, not on this network, I donât know anybody who got anything wrong.â
Who are these âpeople in the media on the leftâ? Rachel Maddow and those two hucksters on Twitter whose names escape me? (I think they were photographers.) Or does Tapper spend his free time reading Workerâs World and Workers Vanguard at subway stops?
Most policy-wonk internet commenters VASTLY underestimate the reach and influence of the âBig 3â news organizations: ABC/Disney, CBS/Viacom , NBC/Comcast.
The big 3 have almost 30 million viewers every weeknight.
In contrast, FOX and MSNBC both get around 2 million viewers each.
To put those numbers in context, ESPN gets 1.9 million, while HGTV gets 1.3 million.
Yet, to hear the HuffPost and TPM pro-sumers talk, you would think the Big 3 have NO INFLUENCE AT ALL.
The number of people who get news from Social Media is high, but varies greatly by day and by platform and does not have anywhere near the consistency of the Big 3 reach.
This is why the Big 3 are so important, they shape the views of a large majority of the VOTING PUBLIC as opposed to the whims of the 8-18 year olds on Instagram and the College crowd and Millenials who make a lot of noise, but donât show up to vote.
This is the painfully obvious elephant in the room. Any claims made about his innocence or vindication by Trump and his enablers at this point are completely meaningless. The fact that the report has not been released to the public says far more than any propaganda that he and his supporters can possibly put out to the public.
Yet MSNBCâs Rachel Maddow was criticized this week by Slateâs Willa Paskin
Willa Paskin is a TV critic, not a political reporter. She has no credibility to judge Maddow on this issue.
Mueller canât indict the president and wasnât allowed to depose Trump or bring him in front of a grand jury. Don Jr. was also not interviewed by Muellerâs team. Roger Stone? That super secret company? All the Russian Banks and over 120 Trump campaign contacts with Russian government representatives? The Trump Tower meeting? Why did Trump dictate a lie July, 2017 about that lie? Why was everyone lying about Russian contacts? Trump lied about, âzero Russian contactsâ all the while this was all going on in the background and he was negotiating a planned hotel in Moscow heâd lied about.
Trump is a made man by the super rich/corporations who donât want to see their taxes rise again. These people believe in the Federalist papers, are members of the Federalist Society (Bill Barr) and others who donât believe in democracy.