Our media - the third grade children at recess

We absolutely needed a Republican President who is willing to go to war against them. It's analogous to the West ignoring the fact that Islam is at war against Western culture. Stick your head in the sand and expect an ongoing butt fricking. We badly need more conservative media outlets and businesses in general competing against their liberal counterparts.

I think it's hilarious who they get on tv me whine about how they're being treated. It's like they believe they are above reproach and any questioning of their reporting or motives is borderline treasonous. Hey media, you weren't elected to shite, you aren't special and your job is not sacrosanct. I encourage the president and everyone else to call you out on your incompetent reporting and beyond obvious biases. Trump is right when he calls them a threat to the American people. And saying that isn't "Un-American" as our favorite incompetent reporter Jake Tapper would like us to believe. Until the president I actually preventing the press from printing what they want then he is doing absolutely nothing that is Un-American. Freedom of the press does not mean freedom to interview whomever you want.

Saturday the NYT print edition admitted that the MSM is biased but that they are telling the truth and that they are paragons of virtue and are saving the world.

The significant item is the admission of bias (3rd time I've read it in the past 12 months). I never thought this admission would ever happen. In essence they are saying "Yes, it's true that we are all left wingers who support the Dem party and we're out to destroy Republicans. But it's for the good of America and the World. It's our duty."

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They profess to be the fourth arm of the government.

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The press is the 4th Estate, not the 4th arm of the govt. I'm not nitpicking. It's an important point.

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I'm not nitpicking.

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Point taken. I just had a senior moment. Thanks.

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They profess to be the fourth arm of the government. Then act like it. Any newsperson worth their salt would grow up and actually start acting their age. Where are the questions about policy this and policy that? As a general consensus, they are sucking at their job because their are too immature to let the squabbling alone.

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That kind of reporting does not get as good ratings as simplistic reporting about Team A good and Team B bad does.

Plus it requires (if you want to do it well) investigative journalism and that costs money and many news organizations are hemmoraging money these days because of much advertising moving to the digital platform.

Craigs list is killing newspapers left and right all around America because a little known secret is that many newspapers lived off of classified advertising. Now with that revenue gone many newspapers are going out of business.