UNDERNEWS: Stupid media pet tricks

June 8, 2016

Stupid media pet tricks

Journalists used to cover politics more like a sports event or, with the best, on behalf of their readers, viewers and listeners. The get Bernie behind Hillary obsession of current media is a classic example of how they have become a passive tool of campaign managers (in this case Clinton's) dutifully repeating political messages as news and fact. Thus the public does not know that 45% of the delegates to the Democratic convention are for Sanders and don't have to follow the Clinton-media campaign orders but can make up their own minds.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I am calling bullshit: The media as become ACTIVE participants in stripping the people of their voice and putting politicians before the people.; June 8, 2016 at 11:24 PM
Greg Gerritt said...: In Rhode Islaqnd the local paper, owned by Texans, called specifically for laws against the right of the people to vote on whether to let their town be destroyed by a new fracked gas power plant. Yup active participants in the destruction of democracy.; June 9, 2016 at 9:10 PM

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