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How can anyone trust the mainstream press anymore?
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2016 Nov 2, 2:47am 11,578 views 52 comments
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Ceffer
2016 Nov 2, 10:25am
American Media: where the shadow government goes to pay to cornhole the nation!
Y
2016 Nov 2, 2:01pm
Well if you want to make that leap of logic then you need to blame the press for publishing it to the world.
Everybody in the chain is guilty by these standards...
"Comey did not leak it to the press. The senators who received his letter did.
You know this."He leaked it to press via a friendly Senator.
Y
2016 Nov 2, 2:03pm
Agreed.
Comey and Chaffetz are now absolved, and the MSM should be punished for this act.
why blame Chaffetz? Why not blame the press and twitter? After all, the press and twitter are the ones who published it to the world.
"Well if you want to make that leap of logic then you need to blame the press for publishing it to the world.
Everybody in the chain is guilty by these standards"
Nope. Only one of them had a policy not to release details of ongoing investigations. For precisely this reason.
FNWGMOBDVZXDNW
2016 Nov 2, 2:09pm
Comey and Chaffetz are now absolved, and the MSM should be punished for this act.
Might as well absolve the media. They just published the news. Blame the idiots that believed it. As the OP says: How can anyone trust the press these days?
Y
2016 Nov 2, 4:17pm
FIFY.
Always go to the source of the problem. Everything else is just collateral damage...
Nope. Only one of them had a policy not to
release details of ongoing investigationsput government emails on personal servers.
Dan8267
2016 Nov 2, 6:19pm
How can anyone trust the mainstream press anymore?
Depends on what you call the mainstream press. I have a high degree of confidence in PBS and NPR, not so much other news agencies.
zzyzzx
2016 Nov 2, 6:58pm
I have a high degree of confidence in PBS and NPR
The same people who put a known Obama supporter to moderate a presidential debate? PBS has an extreme liberal bias.
Media in the U.S. (and much of Europe & Asia) is LITERALLY controlled by 22 corporations (6 own every cable channel, radio channel, network, paper, etc. in the U.S.).
We no longer have anything resembling a 5th Estate or free press; we have a media that dishes out the narrative on any given subject that the corporate-WallStreet/Banking-military-pharma-et al complex wants the narrative to be.
The preordained narrative shapes public opinion, which has no impact on legislation or policy anyways (that was preordained from the start as the policy makers, legislators and regulators are all captured).
Y
2016 Nov 2, 9:42pm
4 hour time limit is up with no response.
I win by default.
Where do I collect my prize?
FIFY.
Always go to the source of the problem. Everything else is just collateral damage...Nope. Only one of them had a policy not to
release details of ongoing investigationsput government emails on personal servers.
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So when Comey stops investigating Hillary, then he's just "doing his job" but when he takes up the investigation again, then he's "damaging our democracy".
WTF?
Can't they at least pretend to be somewhat objective about Hillary, and not so blatantly partisan in her favor?
The Washington Press itself is clearly damaging our democracy, and our faith in the press.
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