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TygrBright

(20,755 posts)
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 03:42 PM Oct 2019

Dear Fourth Estate: How About This Tactic to Fulfill Your Actual Responsibility...?

Dear Actual News Media of All Types (Online, print, cable, radio, podcast, broadcast... allayez):

It has come to my attention that, in spite of including the words "There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden" in various coverage of President Windrip's exposure as a blatant racketeer and extortionist, many Americans continue to believe there is a "there" there.

This is probably a combination of simple lazy "no smoke without fire" thinking and sheer bloody-minded denial. But regardless, it IS your responsibility, as the Fourth Estate, to ensure that factual refutation of such an obvious politically-motivated fiction reaches the widest possible audience.

To that end, I have a suggestion to offer:

Pick a three-day period sometime in the next two weeks.

Make a commitment that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU, at some point during that period, will make "There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden" your LEAD story or article.

Every newspaper. Every news show, cable, broadcast television, or radio. Every news website. Every news podcast.

For three days.

"There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden"

It will not convince QAnon, of course, nor the hardest-core MAGAts.

But it might go some distance toward restoring the confidence of America in the ability of our Fourth Estate to promote fact-based news coverage.

That is all.

Thank you for your consideration of the radical notion of doing your jobs.

impatiently,
Bright

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Dear Fourth Estate: How About This Tactic to Fulfill Your Actual Responsibility...? (Original Post) TygrBright Oct 2019 OP
Ka Boom!!!! Wellstone ruled Oct 2019 #1
They are doing so. Sherman A1 Oct 2019 #2

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
2. They are doing so.
Wed Oct 2, 2019, 03:53 PM
Oct 2019

They fill airtime between ads for drugs that we never knew we needed. You seem to believe they have other responsibilities?

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