Let's be real. The Beltway press corps, especially the pundits, are actively cheering for a Republican sweep in November followed by the return in glory of Trump in 2024. They know it will be a circus. They know it will be a clusterfuck. They know it might spell the end of democracy as we know it. But they don't care. Circuses and clusterfucks are easy to write about and generate a lot of clicks. And they already have the stories written blaming Democrats for the dend of democracy.
Fox is already the house organ for the GOP, they will be safe as will OANN and Newsmax. You are right about the rest of them. Most will be out of a job, a few, very few, will be jailed.
Agree. FOX or one of them would most likely become State run media. And the Republicans are already talking about jailing January 6 Committee people, Pelosi and others should the Republicans sweep the House and Senate this year. I doubt the media would be exempt.
It might be interesting to see them try to jail any of their favorite villains. What I think is more likely is that one of the idiot followers tries something really stupid.
The other glaring thing these fools fail to comprehend is that in a true authoritarian government all guns are confiscated most of the time. I wish I could make them aware of that.
The Corporate Controlled Conservative Press not only wants the GOP to get the House back they want Joe and Kamala impeached on the charge that they stole the Presidency from Trump.
Maybe it will serve as the perfect sideshow - to distract from the end of democracy? Hard to tell. Don’t want to possibly give credit to some non-existent ‘master plan’… :/
Why didn't the Biden Administration sell this anniversary? They've got the biggest bully pulpit in the world and I wish they would make more and better use of it.
Very off topic, but I was going to let me membership run out. Trying to limit my political intake since it just makes me so angry and frustrated.
Then I was watching MSNBC, and there was an expert on a panel saying that the situation with the Polish jets was “convoluted,” but why couldn’t the Biden administration just give the jets to Ukraine. All I could think of was, you just said it was convoluted, your words. That’s not a recipe of just doing it. How do you get the jets to Ukraine. This isn’t putting some groceries in the back of your SUV and taking them to grandmas. You don’t just put jets on the back of flat bed trucks. Have Ukrainian pilots go to a US base in Germany and fly them through a number of restricted airspaces? Sure, Russia would be just fine with that. Or have US pilots fly them to Ukraine, and maybe end up in a dogfight with Russian jets – as if Russia wouldn’t be able to track all the efforts to get the jets to Ukraine. This same expert mentioned how Zelenskyy was single-handily getting Europe on his side. Yup, no help from Biden and the US. Do these experts seriously think anything would have been done but for the pressure done by the Biden administration.
After that, realized we still need to support all this effort trying to limit that damage being done by MSM. And it is damage – they are completely unable to give any support to the Biden administration. Trump got his “presidential” moment(s), but Biden just gets criticism for trying to keep the US out of WW3 while doing everything else to support Ukraine. Including making tough decisions such as the oil cutoff.
And no outrage over prior admin pulling out of agreements, damaging alliances, plan to ditch NATO, having the taliban over for lunch - endless. Agreed upon narrative is that Joe isn’t one of the cool kids… Really?…
The morally & intellectually bankrupt jackasses of the various outlets of American mainstream media shouldn't be allowed to dictate the popularity of any politician on the basis of whether or not those people actively seek the media attention.
As I've written before, they don't like Biden for being a known commodity of more than 50 years which according to them, makes him "boring" to cover.
Somehow, they're okay with giving a pass to the Tangerine Turdblossom because he's "different" & "exciting" to cover despite the racism, misogyny, corruption, conspiracy theory mongering & embrace of authoritarianism.
The distinction I don't see in the press is that rolling back restrictions is not the same as rejecting all mitigation and safety measure. I went to the supermarket yesterday. I wore my mask inside the store. I will continue doing it. I rarely go to restaurants outside of my immediate neighborhood. Since I'm sober (and have been for a while), I'm not jonesing to go to any happy-hours or parties to get plastered. I'll continue working from home until my boss demands I actually be there. In that case, I'll try to negotiate some sort of hybrid weekly schedule because, honestly, I don't need to be there to get things done. I don't give a damn whether real estate companies in Manhattan need to make money or to spend $10 minimum on a lunch I can make cheaper at home. None of these things are important enough for me to get sick or make my wife sick.
The "end" of Covid as a pandemic might happen this year or next year, but ending restrictions because members of the press are itching to go bar-hopping and then wake up next to someone the next morning feeling ashamed is not a good enough reason for it.
I saw a theory the reason they were so easy on DeSantis bullying high school students was because they secretly agreed with him and are tired of wearing masks. My mom saw the DeSantis video and said not only could she not see Biden doing that, she could not see the Bushes or even Reagan doing that.
DeSantis is just a total jerk. Another one of these guys who wasn't the main bully back in high school - he was the sidekick. Now he's achieved something but is still resentful of having to be the guy who said, "Good one, Butch," behind another dude. I used to think that DeSantis was just a guy trying to imitate Donald Trump but without a discernible personality. Now I realize he thinks he's all that and wants to lash out at everyone to prove it.
I'm tired of wearing a mask too, but that's not a good enough reason for me to stop wearing one, or for me to agree with people who feel like "covid is over".
But if we get another variant that causes an uptick, the DC political media brothel--the chief chucktodd of them all, madam; Margaret Brennan, executive director of not following up on questions--will blame him for it. Guaranteed.
We've been through a period of covid schmovid and it didn't turn out well. I hope we're not there again. I don't trust mutations to stop. Still, better news is better news. For now.
To be honest, neither do I. And as soon as the numbers drop, Americans throw caution to the wind and another surge happens. The numbers will keep dropping well into summer, meaning that people will stop getting boosters, which are already down by 29%. This could throw open the door to a new variant in the fall.
Every time the tv news does a segment on the national average price of gas. I think it's $4.23 a gallon now. They will show some gas station where gas is like 6 or 7 dollars a gallon. I don't know where those gas stations are. I'm guessing CA or something. That's not my local station. We are $3.89 a gallon. I live in CO. Why do they show these outlier gas stations? I believe it's intentional. Yes the reporters says what the national average, but they show something very different. Images tend to be more powerful and impactful, then the words you hear.
Yes it is intentional they want the people to say this is Biden's fault. But with with a brain should remember the president doesn't own a refinery. He's not on the board of a oil company, with half a brain the president doesn't own oil, big business does who funds the repugs. Should be speaking to the people who get big donations to sell out the consumer. As the 9ld hit song goes for the love money.
I too have been appalled that the media coverage of Biden’s handling of covid has been unfairly and relentlessly negative. Google the world map of covid hotspots and you will see that the US is doing far better now than a large section of Europe and Asia. You would never know that from the media coverage. I don’t think this link is behind the Times’s paywall. Scroll down for the world map of hotspots:
However I strongly disagree with this explanation: “it’s more compelling and likely more alluring to news consumers”. As I have posted before there is now good evidence that people are actually more likely to pay attention to stories about solutions to problems than they are to negative stories problem-centered stories.
That study was done in several media markets and is good proof that the the claim that most people prefer negative stories is not true. I suspected it never has been. I remember when local media decided to switch to the “if it bleeds it leads” approach to local news. At that time it was clear that the big reason was that it was cheaper to produce than more substantive stories.
At some point before the midterms, the Biden Administration one of those tick-box lists of accomplishments, and I expect that our Failed Political Press ™ will either ignore it entirely or frame it as a desperate attempt to prove efficacy.
Our media really is a no-win operation for this administration.
Can’t the press handle two big stories at the same time; walk, chew gum? Wall to wall coverage of Putin’s war has eclipsed everything else that is reported. Truly, the war is horrific and good coverage of the facts, human suffering, atrocities etc. is what the press should do but, as Eric states, what the hell ever happened to COVID? Good news for Biden is good news for the country when it comes to Covid. I guess it’s just not that interesting for the msm to give kudos to Biden for a job well done. BORING. And covid is far from over. If only to be a fly on the wall in the media bubble msm occupies when news editors meet and decide what they think the public SHOULD know rather than what we must know.
The press roots for the anti-democrats. The first thing trump would do if armageddon comes to pass is silence the press and replace the entire industry with OAN. On a happier note, I have no doubt that PressRun is required reading in the nation's most influential news outlets, and our words do matter. Hold Fast.
In lieu of my usual cynicism, a query: I wonder just how large the audience for the media spew of this kind of coverage and how that group overlaps with voters. I know, polls suggest it can be influential but I really wonder, at least in this case, whether the BS will stick electorally.
But I have to say, the contrast between the Biden/Covid coverage and the Trump/Covid coverage kind of cracks me up given the non-stop passes the latter gets despite his response has been literally deadly.
From what I have seen over the years this kind of coverage (I assume you mean negative coverage) strongly affects not only polls but also election outcomes. For example there is good evidence that the media obsession with Hillary’s emails and the supposed corruption of the Clinton Foundation hurt her badly in 2016. DItto for Al Gore in 2000.
The excessively negative media coverage of our economy is clearly showing up in polls. It is astounding how many people who are not right wingers have no clue that our gdp and jobs growth has been astoundingly strong and that many believe we are in a recession. Polls also show that most people say their own economic situation is good so that isn’t the explanation for their misperception. The belief that a president is bad at handling the economy is a major reason for not getting reelected.
Fascinating how people are screaming over gas prices but consumer spending remains at a record high and most people say their personal financial situation is good. The press is telling them they're suffering, so they believe it despite the facts.
I agree. The poor are feeling the effects, but the media is ignoring them. Their false reporting is focused on the middle class and those people are the ones most likely to vote.
It clearly looks like there is or should be a connection. Y question is more whether there’s empirical proof.
Using Clinton 2016 for example: given that the loss was due to the Electoral College and a relatively small number of votes in a few states, was that cohort persuade by media slurs to vote against Trump? Did the coverage suppress turnout in those few states? You’d think, but is there proof?
I read that her poll numbers dropped precipitously after The NY Times went all in on Steven Bannon and Peter Schweitzer’s false claims about the corruption of the Clinton Foundation in 2015 and never really recovered. Before that happened her polls had been consistently above 50%. (Can’t find the link now.)
There is some pretty good evidence that Comey’s last minute public statement about her emails tanked her polls and that likely cost her the election.
The Beltway Buffoons are more interested in filling the airwaves with cynicism, despair & hopelessness when it comes to the Biden administration since any good news coming would mean they would have truthfully report that a "boring" leader is better than an unhinged, bigoted, conspiracy spewing, authoritarian, corrupt, and all-around awful person who mainly supplies those jackasses with 24-7 content to attract clicks & views.
I do think TFG moved the Overton Window pretty darn well… up to The People when the pendulum swings back to decency. Which Joe is committed to restoring…
Let's be real. The Beltway press corps, especially the pundits, are actively cheering for a Republican sweep in November followed by the return in glory of Trump in 2024. They know it will be a circus. They know it will be a clusterfuck. They know it might spell the end of democracy as we know it. But they don't care. Circuses and clusterfucks are easy to write about and generate a lot of clicks. And they already have the stories written blaming Democrats for the dend of democracy.
It certainly seems like they’re cheering for GOP win
What they do not realize is that Dictatorships are not friendly to the media. So these fools just might be out of a job. Or in prison.
Fox is already the house organ for the GOP, they will be safe as will OANN and Newsmax. You are right about the rest of them. Most will be out of a job, a few, very few, will be jailed.
Agree. FOX or one of them would most likely become State run media. And the Republicans are already talking about jailing January 6 Committee people, Pelosi and others should the Republicans sweep the House and Senate this year. I doubt the media would be exempt.
It might be interesting to see them try to jail any of their favorite villains. What I think is more likely is that one of the idiot followers tries something really stupid.
The other glaring thing these fools fail to comprehend is that in a true authoritarian government all guns are confiscated most of the time. I wish I could make them aware of that.
The Corporate Controlled Conservative Press not only wants the GOP to get the House back they want Joe and Kamala impeached on the charge that they stole the Presidency from Trump.
Scary as hell but true.
Yep.
Maybe it will serve as the perfect sideshow - to distract from the end of democracy? Hard to tell. Don’t want to possibly give credit to some non-existent ‘master plan’… :/
Why didn't the Biden Administration sell this anniversary? They've got the biggest bully pulpit in the world and I wish they would make more and better use of it.
fair Q
If they did the Press Corpse would be in full attack mode.
Fine then let them. When did we become afraid of the Press?
We’re not afraid of the Press. We’re just sick of their lying for Trump and the Nazis.
Very off topic, but I was going to let me membership run out. Trying to limit my political intake since it just makes me so angry and frustrated.
Then I was watching MSNBC, and there was an expert on a panel saying that the situation with the Polish jets was “convoluted,” but why couldn’t the Biden administration just give the jets to Ukraine. All I could think of was, you just said it was convoluted, your words. That’s not a recipe of just doing it. How do you get the jets to Ukraine. This isn’t putting some groceries in the back of your SUV and taking them to grandmas. You don’t just put jets on the back of flat bed trucks. Have Ukrainian pilots go to a US base in Germany and fly them through a number of restricted airspaces? Sure, Russia would be just fine with that. Or have US pilots fly them to Ukraine, and maybe end up in a dogfight with Russian jets – as if Russia wouldn’t be able to track all the efforts to get the jets to Ukraine. This same expert mentioned how Zelenskyy was single-handily getting Europe on his side. Yup, no help from Biden and the US. Do these experts seriously think anything would have been done but for the pressure done by the Biden administration.
After that, realized we still need to support all this effort trying to limit that damage being done by MSM. And it is damage – they are completely unable to give any support to the Biden administration. Trump got his “presidential” moment(s), but Biden just gets criticism for trying to keep the US out of WW3 while doing everything else to support Ukraine. Including making tough decisions such as the oil cutoff.
And no outrage over prior admin pulling out of agreements, damaging alliances, plan to ditch NATO, having the taliban over for lunch - endless. Agreed upon narrative is that Joe isn’t one of the cool kids… Really?…
The morally & intellectually bankrupt jackasses of the various outlets of American mainstream media shouldn't be allowed to dictate the popularity of any politician on the basis of whether or not those people actively seek the media attention.
As I've written before, they don't like Biden for being a known commodity of more than 50 years which according to them, makes him "boring" to cover.
Somehow, they're okay with giving a pass to the Tangerine Turdblossom because he's "different" & "exciting" to cover despite the racism, misogyny, corruption, conspiracy theory mongering & embrace of authoritarianism.
The distinction I don't see in the press is that rolling back restrictions is not the same as rejecting all mitigation and safety measure. I went to the supermarket yesterday. I wore my mask inside the store. I will continue doing it. I rarely go to restaurants outside of my immediate neighborhood. Since I'm sober (and have been for a while), I'm not jonesing to go to any happy-hours or parties to get plastered. I'll continue working from home until my boss demands I actually be there. In that case, I'll try to negotiate some sort of hybrid weekly schedule because, honestly, I don't need to be there to get things done. I don't give a damn whether real estate companies in Manhattan need to make money or to spend $10 minimum on a lunch I can make cheaper at home. None of these things are important enough for me to get sick or make my wife sick.
The "end" of Covid as a pandemic might happen this year or next year, but ending restrictions because members of the press are itching to go bar-hopping and then wake up next to someone the next morning feeling ashamed is not a good enough reason for it.
I saw a theory the reason they were so easy on DeSantis bullying high school students was because they secretly agreed with him and are tired of wearing masks. My mom saw the DeSantis video and said not only could she not see Biden doing that, she could not see the Bushes or even Reagan doing that.
DeSantis is just a total jerk. Another one of these guys who wasn't the main bully back in high school - he was the sidekick. Now he's achieved something but is still resentful of having to be the guy who said, "Good one, Butch," behind another dude. I used to think that DeSantis was just a guy trying to imitate Donald Trump but without a discernible personality. Now I realize he thinks he's all that and wants to lash out at everyone to prove it.
I'm tired of wearing a mask too, but that's not a good enough reason for me to stop wearing one, or for me to agree with people who feel like "covid is over".
From Mother Jones’ “Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson”
Glenn Greenwald is both furious and green with envy!
But if we get another variant that causes an uptick, the DC political media brothel--the chief chucktodd of them all, madam; Margaret Brennan, executive director of not following up on questions--will blame him for it. Guaranteed.
We've been through a period of covid schmovid and it didn't turn out well. I hope we're not there again. I don't trust mutations to stop. Still, better news is better news. For now.
To be honest, neither do I. And as soon as the numbers drop, Americans throw caution to the wind and another surge happens. The numbers will keep dropping well into summer, meaning that people will stop getting boosters, which are already down by 29%. This could throw open the door to a new variant in the fall.
There needs to be a happy medium between full-on panic and carefree abandon. The press mostly chooses not to help on that.
Think spring break
Every time the tv news does a segment on the national average price of gas. I think it's $4.23 a gallon now. They will show some gas station where gas is like 6 or 7 dollars a gallon. I don't know where those gas stations are. I'm guessing CA or something. That's not my local station. We are $3.89 a gallon. I live in CO. Why do they show these outlier gas stations? I believe it's intentional. Yes the reporters says what the national average, but they show something very different. Images tend to be more powerful and impactful, then the words you hear.
Yes it is intentional they want the people to say this is Biden's fault. But with with a brain should remember the president doesn't own a refinery. He's not on the board of a oil company, with half a brain the president doesn't own oil, big business does who funds the repugs. Should be speaking to the people who get big donations to sell out the consumer. As the 9ld hit song goes for the love money.
I too have been appalled that the media coverage of Biden’s handling of covid has been unfairly and relentlessly negative. Google the world map of covid hotspots and you will see that the US is doing far better now than a large section of Europe and Asia. You would never know that from the media coverage. I don’t think this link is behind the Times’s paywall. Scroll down for the world map of hotspots:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
However I strongly disagree with this explanation: “it’s more compelling and likely more alluring to news consumers”. As I have posted before there is now good evidence that people are actually more likely to pay attention to stories about solutions to problems than they are to negative stories problem-centered stories.
https://sjn-static.s3.amazonaws.com/SmithGeiger2020.pdf
That study was done in several media markets and is good proof that the the claim that most people prefer negative stories is not true. I suspected it never has been. I remember when local media decided to switch to the “if it bleeds it leads” approach to local news. At that time it was clear that the big reason was that it was cheaper to produce than more substantive stories.
oh interesting abt the consumer appetite for good Covid news
Ps. Gas prices went down to under $100 per gallon, 8%. Let’s see how this gets handled in the msm.
At some point before the midterms, the Biden Administration one of those tick-box lists of accomplishments, and I expect that our Failed Political Press ™ will either ignore it entirely or frame it as a desperate attempt to prove efficacy.
Our media really is a no-win operation for this administration.
Not just this administration: all Democrats. Practically speaking, they still treat Denny Hastert with more respect than Nancy Pelosi.
Can’t the press handle two big stories at the same time; walk, chew gum? Wall to wall coverage of Putin’s war has eclipsed everything else that is reported. Truly, the war is horrific and good coverage of the facts, human suffering, atrocities etc. is what the press should do but, as Eric states, what the hell ever happened to COVID? Good news for Biden is good news for the country when it comes to Covid. I guess it’s just not that interesting for the msm to give kudos to Biden for a job well done. BORING. And covid is far from over. If only to be a fly on the wall in the media bubble msm occupies when news editors meet and decide what they think the public SHOULD know rather than what we must know.
The press roots for the anti-democrats. The first thing trump would do if armageddon comes to pass is silence the press and replace the entire industry with OAN. On a happier note, I have no doubt that PressRun is required reading in the nation's most influential news outlets, and our words do matter. Hold Fast.
In lieu of my usual cynicism, a query: I wonder just how large the audience for the media spew of this kind of coverage and how that group overlaps with voters. I know, polls suggest it can be influential but I really wonder, at least in this case, whether the BS will stick electorally.
But I have to say, the contrast between the Biden/Covid coverage and the Trump/Covid coverage kind of cracks me up given the non-stop passes the latter gets despite his response has been literally deadly.
From what I have seen over the years this kind of coverage (I assume you mean negative coverage) strongly affects not only polls but also election outcomes. For example there is good evidence that the media obsession with Hillary’s emails and the supposed corruption of the Clinton Foundation hurt her badly in 2016. DItto for Al Gore in 2000.
The excessively negative media coverage of our economy is clearly showing up in polls. It is astounding how many people who are not right wingers have no clue that our gdp and jobs growth has been astoundingly strong and that many believe we are in a recession. Polls also show that most people say their own economic situation is good so that isn’t the explanation for their misperception. The belief that a president is bad at handling the economy is a major reason for not getting reelected.
Fascinating how people are screaming over gas prices but consumer spending remains at a record high and most people say their personal financial situation is good. The press is telling them they're suffering, so they believe it despite the facts.
I think people themselves feel they are doing well. It's everyone else that is suffering. Based on all the negative reporting.
I agree. The poor are feeling the effects, but the media is ignoring them. Their false reporting is focused on the middle class and those people are the ones most likely to vote.
We’re worried abt the RussianPeople being misled - what abt our own situation?!
It clearly looks like there is or should be a connection. Y question is more whether there’s empirical proof.
Using Clinton 2016 for example: given that the loss was due to the Electoral College and a relatively small number of votes in a few states, was that cohort persuade by media slurs to vote against Trump? Did the coverage suppress turnout in those few states? You’d think, but is there proof?
I read that her poll numbers dropped precipitously after The NY Times went all in on Steven Bannon and Peter Schweitzer’s false claims about the corruption of the Clinton Foundation in 2015 and never really recovered. Before that happened her polls had been consistently above 50%. (Can’t find the link now.)
There is some pretty good evidence that Comey’s last minute public statement about her emails tanked her polls and that likely cost her the election.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/
Of course there is no way to prove this kind of thing conclusively.
The Beltway Buffoons are more interested in filling the airwaves with cynicism, despair & hopelessness when it comes to the Biden administration since any good news coming would mean they would have truthfully report that a "boring" leader is better than an unhinged, bigoted, conspiracy spewing, authoritarian, corrupt, and all-around awful person who mainly supplies those jackasses with 24-7 content to attract clicks & views.
I do think TFG moved the Overton Window pretty darn well… up to The People when the pendulum swings back to decency. Which Joe is committed to restoring…
It's a real simple equation: GOP victory + resultant Chaos = ratings $.
Nah, it's worse than that. I cringe when people treat it as a simple matter of ad revenue. The real equation is simpler: Fascism = corporate power.