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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI just walked by CNN on in my office lobby....
All I heard was Trump giving the same lame, tired "I'm going to win so much you're going to beg me to stop winning" speech that he's given for the past 11 or so months.
I always thought the concept of "news" was to show you things that were, you know, new.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Trump is one of them, so he gets all the airtime and anything else he wants to help defeat HRC. News was something they did prior to Gulf War I.
LisaM
(27,847 posts)The foreign media, frankly, isn't much better. They are so outraged that he may be the nominee that they give him constant attention, too. It's like every foreign person you see starts out by saying, "how can you Americans vote for Donald Trump"? and really, the only response to that should be, "et tu, Brute?"
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Shandris
(3,447 posts)The News, as it were, is mostly fictitious and exists to sell you a false reality under the mantle of a corrupted dialectic that passes itself off as a """Democracy""". It is, in no way, meant to inform you. In fact, that is the LAST thing they wish to happen.
The Medes have always been illusionists. The Magic of Wandwood doesn't just exist in movies, you know.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)systems early. In a few weeks they will be board with him and start making fun of him.
Warpy
(111,406 posts)that people who don't want to think tune into. It delivers a nicely passive audience to the commercials.
And y'all wonder why I haven't watched TV news since 2004.
pansypoo53219
(21,005 posts)again.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)I have the misfortune of it being in my elevator at work.
Ugh.