Do you think the media is trying to ensure Trump's reelection?

[tenderfoot]

Face the Nation conducted a softball interview with Ivanka Trump today - a few days after lamenting about not hosting obvious liars and trying to do better.

Personally, I think the media (NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC) absolutely LOVES all the horrible things Trump is doing, they love the wedge he has driven between citizens, they love the hatred and cruelty he's helped unleash, etc... all because of ratings/optics/pizzazz.

So I ask, do you think the media is making a concerted effort to try and help Trump win in 2020?

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	Yes - the media loves the drama and will ensure it doesn't stop
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	No - the media is truly trying to report the best they can
	3 (30%)
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[RKP5637]

1. IMO the media loves controversy as it attracts viewers. If all was calm, media viewership and

profitability would fall off. Once the media became P&L centers, everything changed.

[lunatica]

2. The media wants Trump in order to make them relevant.

[Takket]

3. the media wants a horse race.......

that's why they push false equivalencies, both-sides-erism, etc..........

[Stuart G]

5. K and R your post...Takket..correct.

[RKP5637]

7. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[lapfog_1]

9. This... and it's what I stated here at the beginning of the primary season

Whoever is leading in the Democratic race... Biden, Warren, Bernie, etc... will have negative press about them.

When the primaries finally end, the press will do everything it can to make the general election close.

After all, if Steve Kornacki can't "go to the big board" and wave his hands around on election night and breathlessly exclaim on every small town or suburb result... they will not have a show that gets the ratings.

The news is not the news, it is part of the entertainment division of every network.

[Strelnikov_]

12. Agree n/t

[underpants]

13. ✅ no one watches a one horse horse race

And ad sales are the media's revenue

[Wounded Bear]

4. As usual, they're going for ratings...

as long as we tune in, they'll keep putting it up.

[Hortensis]

6. Much of media are corrupt, including many with the NYT and AP.

For instance, Dean Baquet, executive editor of the NYT, is proven to have published what are effectively blatant lies both to help elect Trump and Republicans and sabotage Democrats.

That includes the infamous NYT Halloween article that Baquet had rewritten a week before election day (over the strenuous objections of its authors) that strongly implied (lied!) the FBI investigation of Trump-Russia hadn't found anything significant, when it had actually found a great deal. The NYT claimed it was at the FBI's request.

Remember when the New York Times cleared Trump of collusion before the election?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/26/remember-when-new-york-times-cleared-trump-collusion-before-election/

Or like when the AP blanketed the nation with a massively blatant lie that Hillary was taking bribes in return for appointments while she was secretary of state. It was SO blatant that many called it out the morning it appeared, but the AP left it up and out for either 10 days or 14 weeks.

How about MSNBC's and CNN's constant pushing of Fox-lite lies and almost constantly negative coverage of Hillary Clinton? And now Biden.

Or almost ALL the MSM's corrupt eagerness to fill the 24/7/365 new cycle with the propaganda and outright lies Justice Democrats offered 24/7/365?

These are a few little snowflakes in a blizzard that continues. The major corporate media's determination to keep Democrats out of power because we will put leashes on their power is real, and what they're supporting to protect themselves from us is a major threat to our nation.

[RKP5637]

8. Well said!!! K&R!!! n/t

[2naSalit]

20. Couldn't agree more...nt

[Kaleva]

10. Wouldn't know. I haven't watched tv news in years.

LBN is my primary source of news and has been for many years now.

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. other. the media is no longer hiring terribly bright people. and

the media is simply concerned with money.

We...the well being of the world...is of no concern to them

[tenderfoot]

14. I should have asked if the media is trying - cite proof

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[DBoon]

15. The media is araid of right wing billionaires

If they reported the truth about Trump, the major media corporations (including NPR/PBS) would get slaughtered.

[stillcool]

16. I know there are some very good journalists...

who continue to write 'news', but none are on my television screen. I hate cable news with a passion generally reserved for the GOP. Although...it's the same thing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. No. But the 24-hour cable news channels need something to talk about,

and Trump's antics give them plenty of material. I don't think most of them want him re-elected, though, because if he could he'd shut them down. He's made that pretty obvious.

[Amera]

18. Yea

They are not talking about climate change, for instance.

[mahina]

19. If they were journalists we would be reading about all his bullshit

And it wouldn’t come as a disbelieved surprise to half the damn country.

I don’t read this in a defeatist but a realist frame.