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2016-11-14 Home Front: Politix

How 2016 changed journalism forever

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Posted by Fred 2016-11-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Forever is a long time.

Posted by gorb 2016-11-14 00:58|| 2016-11-14 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Since Intifada I, we called them mar'ilei be'erot = well poisoners.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-11-14 01:12|| 2016-11-14 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 On the bright side the MSM is in a financial death spiral, and people paid to spin the news will soon be as anachronistic as medieval pardoners.

Posted by phil_b 2016-11-14 04:47|| 2016-11-14 04:47|| Front Page Top

#4 And then when it looked like he had a legitimate shot at the presidency, many of us did everything in our power to warn the American people to reject his message.

More blather from the echo chamber of the MSM. Spare me, you had your chance. What gives you the right to try to destroy a candidate at every turn--to the extent of making up stories? What gives you the right to elevate another candidate and hide all their flaws. You never vetted Obama, you never vetted Hillary. Your job is to report fairly on a candidate and let people decide whether or not they want to vote for that candidate. I've never seen such a pile-on. The NYTs says they are trying to atone, but who believes them? So I say to you "GF-Yourselves." Enjoy the grave you have dug for yourselves.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-11-14 06:44|| 2016-11-14 06:44|| Front Page Top

#5 The current big media goal is to establish 'professional media' as a government backed and protected position. Kinda like working for the IRS. Everyone else is fair game.

Posted by ed in texas 2016-11-14 07:23|| 2016-11-14 07:23|| Front Page Top

#6 I had no problem with unbalanced coverage during the 2016 cycle. Our job first and foremost is to educate the public and help them make informed decisions.

No, you've taken upon yourself to bury, distort, fabricate, and promote lies and hate. There is no 'informed' in these deeds. If the 'media' were held to the same quality and purity standards demanded of manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, food distributors, et al, you would have been put out of business long ago.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-11-14 07:27|| 2016-11-14 07:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Trump was and is a dangerous man ideologically,

And who died and made you God?

The arrogance of these people is truly mind blowing. They think that their judgements are infallible and they can pronounce on any person's worth at will.

Posted by AlanC 2016-11-14 08:26|| 2016-11-14 08:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Knowing something of the history of Lenin I have never trusted the name Axelrod. (Joshua Axelrod is author of this piece.)

Posted by Heriberto Greper9897 2016-11-14 08:27|| 2016-11-14 08:27|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't trust Trump. I didn't/don't trust Clinton either. Or any politician (for that matter, I'm kind of in the Fox Muldur 'trust no one' camp.)
The media would never have tried to shine a light on Clinton, but I am confident they will on Trump. I guess I prefer they be right half the time to never being right.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-11-14 09:33|| 2016-11-14 09:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Dangerous to whom? How?

They never explain how they reach these conclusions, they just keep repeating them as if that will make them true. It doesn't and Trump won the election because people are beginning to figure it out.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-11-14 13:08|| 2016-11-14 13:08|| Front Page Top

#11 My opinion is the MSM is even more dangerous than the Bush/Clinton/Obama elites because they no longer compete with each other. Instead these so called journalists appear to have some mechanism, some list of talking points that they all use to present the same stories with the same spin each and every night. It's like Orwell's Ministry of Truth. That's way in the heck scarier than any politician. That's extremely dangerous. If a politician gets out of line you should expect the media to all start digging and trying to scoop (that's a word you never hear anymore) each other with the latest and most illuminating details on the scandal. Instead these treasonous bastards all agree to bury the scandals that involve their pet politicians and hammer away at little transgression committed by the likes of Trump. Truly chilling.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-11-14 13:20|| 2016-11-14 13:20|| Front Page Top

#12 This fuck is the elitist I vote against when I voted Trump. How dare he say or imply he should educate us into what to think. He is THE problem. Journalists are hated because they are condescending and elitist. The only person Trump's ideology is dangerous toward are those that don't believe in American exceptionalism and the elite. They still don't get it. I wonder if they ever will.

Posted by 49 Pan 2016-11-14 15:00|| 2016-11-14 15:00|| Front Page Top

#13 America knows Hillary is a crook, and the majority took the moral high ground and rejected her.

Posted by regular joe 2016-11-14 15:46|| 2016-11-14 15:46|| Front Page Top

#14 What's changed?

Posted by Rex Mundi 2016-11-14 18:37|| 2016-11-14 18:37|| Front Page Top

#15 Where'd this guy come from? Doesn't really sound like the Examiner. Lines crossed with Huffpost?

Posted by KBK 2016-11-14 19:00|| 2016-11-14 19:00|| Front Page Top

#16 so called journalists appear to have some mechanism, some list of talking points that they all use to present the same stories with the same spin each and every night.

It's because it's so. Media Matters for America is funded by George Soros and a number of interlocking progressive organizations. John Podesta (Hillary's 2016 campaign chairman) has been very active in creating many of these progressive organizations.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-11-14 20:32|| 2016-11-14 20:32|| Front Page Top

#17 "Our job first and foremost is to educate the public and help them make informed decisions"

NO, your job first and foremost (in fact, your only job) is to REPORT. THE. NEWS. Period.

You want to "educate" readers? That's what the ~~propaganda~~ Opinion page is for.

Posted by Barbara 2016-11-14 20:42|| 2016-11-14 20:42|| Front Page Top

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