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frick the media
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:24 am
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:24 am
Peter Navarro was getting screamed at by CNN because "WE NEED 1 MILLION VENTILATORS" and now the Surgeon General is getting grilled hysterically by CBS. The Surgeon General even mentioned the Navarro interview this morning.
I'm all for freedom of speech, but damn, isn't the media yelling fire in a theater here? The hysteria, sensationalist reporting, and doom and gloom will wind up costing more damage than this virus. Is there some kind of professional code, best practice, or standard we can hold these assholes up to so they can be sued?
I'm all for freedom of speech, but damn, isn't the media yelling fire in a theater here? The hysteria, sensationalist reporting, and doom and gloom will wind up costing more damage than this virus. Is there some kind of professional code, best practice, or standard we can hold these assholes up to so they can be sued?
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Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:26 am to Friedbrie
Hey the media has to sell a product these days as well. Nothing like sensationalism to keep viewers. Sad but true!
*Not sure why this is getting downvoted, I'm saying the media sucks basically by using sensationalism to scare folks to generate profits.
*Not sure why this is getting downvoted, I'm saying the media sucks basically by using sensationalism to scare folks to generate profits.
This post was edited on 3/27/20 at 8:14 am
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:28 am to Friedbrie
The media is trying to tamp down the desire for America to get back to work to ensure an economic recession to dunk on Trump. Hopefully their tactics won’t last long.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:29 am to Friedbrie
quote:Is the theater crowded?
I'm all for freedom of speech, but damn, isn't the media yelling fire in a theater here?
If it's an empty theater you can yell "Fire!!! Fire!!! The flames are consuming my flesh!!!" all you want
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:30 am to Crimson1st
quote:
Hey the media has to sell a product these days as well. Nothing like sensationalism to keep viewers. Sad but true!
sad that health crisis needs anythign added to it to keep people "interested"
frankly, because of their coverage, people get depressed adn turn it off...
so I think it back fires
and If I could, I'd toss everyone of these SOBs in jail that wrote a fake story the last 4 years....
I would declare war on their version of free speech which they are in position to be "inform the public"
freak these people...
they are damn devil..
how many are gay, lesbian and perverts? a great many it seems on CNN and MSDNC
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:30 am to Friedbrie
I watched that interview last night. That chick was about as rude as a host I've ever seen. It was nothing but a twitter performance by her. Hell, if I'd been the guy I would have pulled my earpiece out and walked off. That bitch didn't want an interview, she just wanted a bully pulpit to spew her shite.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:31 am to Crimson1st
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Hey the media has to sell a product these days as well. Nothing like sensationalism to keep viewers. Sad but true!
Media makes money regardless, they don’t care about people.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:31 am to Friedbrie
The vents are basically useless in this situation, not sure why people are still talking about vents. 
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:33 am to Homesick Tiger
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That chick was about as rude as a host I've ever seen
Yeah, I wanted to slap her face.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:34 am to Homesick Tiger
kinda like your president. 
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:35 am to Friedbrie
I think most media outlets are controlled by just a handful of people/corporations. So it stands to reason that entire narratives are driven by the desires of just a few powerful people. This has me wondering is there something that can be done about this without infringing upon free speech?
could these big media corporations be broken up via some method like Anti-trust? They monopolize ideas not necessarily money.
Just something that popped into my mind and got me thinking.
could these big media corporations be broken up via some method like Anti-trust? They monopolize ideas not necessarily money.
Just something that popped into my mind and got me thinking.
This post was edited on 3/27/20 at 7:37 am
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:37 am to 56lsu
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kinda like your president.
Uh, your president doesn't ask the questions, he tries to answer them. There is a difference.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:38 am to Friedbrie
Mah Ventilators! Meanwhile even Cryin Cuomo is still sitting on thousands of unused ventilators in NY.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:43 am to Friedbrie
I rarely watch them anymore, they're full of bullschiff
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:45 am to PhDoogan
They media is beyond the point of salvageable in this country. I literally trust the incompetence of Congress more than the media.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:50 am to Animal
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could these big media corporations be broken up via some method like Anti-trust? They monopolize ideas not necessarily money.
The big media companies are all in bed with/financed by other giant corporate interests. If you severed their ties to these (the best option), they would all go out of business.
Noam Chomsky does a pretty good rundown in his book Manufacturing Consent.
Media is corporate-owned, so its agenda is never truly anti-corporate.
Media revenue comes from advertising, so its agenda never truly clashes with that of its advertisers.
Media sourcing is reliant on access to established power (in most cases government officials), so its agenda is never truly anti-establishment.
The one thing that has changed markedly since Manufacturing Consent was published, and even more markedly following Trump's election, is the ideological influence on news as a result of its sponsorship by indepdently wealthy billionaires.
Corporate-backed media will always seek to be profitable. This leads to the prevalence of tabloid news.
When a billionaire can self-finance media as an ideological side venture, he can make a personal cost/benefit analysis beyons the profit motive. This is far more dangerous and far harder to regulate against. An educated, aware, and engaged populace has to battle this in the arena of public opinion.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 7:52 am to PorkSammich
quote:CNN has admitted as much.
Media makes money regardless, they don’t care about people.
They have zero problem with the TV ratings tanking because the outrageous behavior generates click revenue online. TV is now clickbait for online ad revenue. Russia Russia Russia is paying paying paying the enemedia to do their advertising (along with China, NK, Turkey, Iran, all the evil empires are paying US media through the internet)
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:05 am to Friedbrie
Well here it is...
According to the MSM Propaganda Machine, at this point in the progression of the virus throughout the nation, they all predicted hospitals being overwhelmed, people being turned away to die in whichever way they see fit, coolers being filled with the bodies of the dead, and President Donald Trump leading all of America off of a cliff to their doom.
The truth turned out to be much different from their wet dream. So of course they're pissy.
According to the MSM Propaganda Machine, at this point in the progression of the virus throughout the nation, they all predicted hospitals being overwhelmed, people being turned away to die in whichever way they see fit, coolers being filled with the bodies of the dead, and President Donald Trump leading all of America off of a cliff to their doom.
The truth turned out to be much different from their wet dream. So of course they're pissy.
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