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michelle wolf called out the cable news media at the white house correspondents dinner for this exact idea: she said something along the lines of 'you all helped create this monster, and now you're profiting off him.' their business model is trump, not news, and as a viewer the only way to combat this is to stop contributing to it- go cold turkey and quit cable news- since more views only equals more free media for trump. it's much better anyway to use a news aggregator like google news or r/politics and then decide for yourself what's credible and reliable.

people may like maddow/hannity/cuomo but they're all just selling a carefully tailored and specific trumpian company narrative while they're given $20k+/episode to either completely ignore or outright distort real news like climate change, the wars overseas, medicare for all, net neutrality, or anything else that benefits regular americans but effects the profits of their parent company/ad sponsors. plus nearly all hosts and most guests have been entrenched among the corporate elite for so long that they are completely detached from the rest of america.

10-25-2018 , 09:08 PM

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wheatrich

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THESE ****ING PEOPLE MAN

10-26-2018 , 09:47 AM

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Victor

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lol better than lou dobbs who is shouting fake bombs

10-26-2018 , 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by SirOsis

At this point about half of Lou Dobbs' brain has the utility of that wet, green floral foam. When he sees foreign names he just open-mouth hums and shakes around his elephant labia neck and hopes for the best.

This is hilarious lol

10-26-2018 , 11:44 AM

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NPR's "Morning Edition" took yet another trip to Trump Country Safari today. They interviewed a guy in Texas who moved there to work the oil fields. He said he was a retired firefighter, but now he's making twice as much as he was as a firefighter (amazing!) and doesn't see any end in sight "as long as the Trump train keeps rolling." They asked him if he worried about how divided the country had become and his response was, "Nope." It was really strange...almost as if he doesn't care what happens as long as he gets his.

Also "Amanda" intimated that she crossed into Mexico all the time to buy sundries cheaper than she can buy them in the US, while also complaining about migrants coming here to "game our system."

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10-26-2018 , 02:16 PM

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I just flipped to Fox News to see their coverage of the bomber. A commercial ran that couldn't have been more Fox News: a golf club deal for first responders and military.

10-26-2018 , 04:23 PM

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lol

10-27-2018 , 01:04 AM

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Trolly McTrollson

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LOL CNN, forever Fox New's *****:

10-27-2018 , 01:10 AM

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...=.6e9e3bbd5ea1

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“The windows of Sayoc’s van were covered with images including images critical of CNN,” the complaint said. The complaint also identifies a Twitter account that law enforcement officials believe Sayoc used.

Some of those postings included the same misspellings contained on some of the addresses on the pipe-bomb packages, including the last name of one of the recipients, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a prominent Florida Democrat and former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. On both the packages and the social media posts, her name was spelled “Shultz,” according to the complaint.

LOOOL. Live by the misspellings, die by the misspellings.

10-27-2018 , 01:34 AM

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lol

I believe Fox News just went ahead and used it anyway

10-30-2018 , 03:30 PM

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10-31-2018 , 03:45 PM

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Checking in briefly with FOX NEWS here at lunch and I saw a couple minutes of a story about how something like 70% of "campaign websites track user information" and can "target users." The campaign websites I saw them namecheck were Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Anyway, long story short I believe FOX NEWS has pulled back the curtain and exposed something called "cookies."

10-31-2018 , 04:35 PM

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lol

10-31-2018 , 09:49 PM

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Fox News tops CNN and MSNBC combined in October cable news ratings

Overall, Fox averaged 2.8 million total viewers in prime time, up 25 percent from October 2017. MSNBC placed second in the category, with 1.58 million viewers, while CNN finished third, with 931,000 viewers, during the time period.

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The top programs in cable news for October were Fox News's "Hannity," with an average of 3.5 million viewers; "Tucker Carlson Tonight," with 3.23 million; "The Ingraham Angle," with 2.97 million; "The Five," with 2.84 million; and "Special Report with Bret Baier," with 2,668,000.

MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" finished sixth in cable news as that network's highest-rated program. Overall, MSNBC finished fourth in basic cable behind Fox News, TBS and ESPN.

CNN's most-watched program was "Cuomo Prime Time," anchored by Chris Cuomo, which averaged 957,000 total viewers and finished 23rd overall in cable news. The network finished ninth in basic cable overall, behind The Hallmark Channel and HGTV.

10-31-2018 , 10:26 PM

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THose Fox numbers are higher than expected, but the average age is like 72. Ad rates are based on younger viewers, so MSNBC probably made more money.

11-01-2018 , 12:24 PM

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Don Lemon doubles down on comments that "the biggest terror threat in this country is white men" after criticism from right-wing snowflakes

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“I keep trying to point out to people not to demonize any one group or any one ethnicity. But we keep thinking that the biggest terror threat is something else — some people who are marching towards the border like it’s imminent,” Lemon told CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, referring to the Central American migrant caravan walking toward the United States. He added that “the last time they did this, a couple hundred people came and they — most of them didn’t get into the country. Most of them got tuckered out before they even made it to the border.”

“So,” he said, “we have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban — you know, they had the Muslim ban. There is no white-guy ban. So what do we do about that?”

On Wednesday, following the backlash, Lemon doubled down.

“Earlier this week, I made some comments about that in a conversation with Chris,” he said during a broadcast Wednesday night. “I said that the biggest terror threat in this country comes from radicals on the far right, primarily white men. That angered some people. But let’s put emotion aside and look at the cold hard facts. The evidence is overwhelming."

11-03-2018 , 01:25 PM

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Can't find a clip but last night Chris Matthews basically sneezed on a guest and it was hilarious.

11-06-2018 , 08:45 AM

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Should probably throw Twitter into one of the media sucks threads, they consistently put in work

11-07-2018 , 03:17 PM

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If there's one of these media turds I could fight irl i would choose Steve Douchey

11-10-2018 , 04:20 PM

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How MSNBC Created a Cable-News Addiction Epidemic

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Which brings us to the problem with MSNBC and this cable-news moment in general. It is not bias, though Fox News goes far beyond mere bias to provide an all-sheltering disinformation bubble. It is the way cable news traps us in the daily drama, forces us to watch the news ping-pong back and forth across our screens, locked in a variant version of the feelings Alex Heard first called hathos—hate + pathos—the cringe-y pleasure derived from watching bad things happen to other people. In this case, the pleasure is mostly gone, but the hathotic (if I may) compulsion grows ever stronger, because the bad things are happening, or are about to happen, to us.

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The extant TV-news model, developed over years of budget cuts and continuously iterated tweaks, feedback looping with minute-by-minute ratings, has settled on a format of competing natterers, minimal enterprise reporting (Jacob Soboroff’s coverage of the maltreatment of migrant children sticking out all the more for its rareness), and relentless micro-topicality. The net result has been to effectively gamify politics: Chris Matthews’s Hardball is “where the action is.” Showtime’s smart politics series is called The Circus. CNN, blindly following a framing that’s been in place since The Making of the President in 1968, declares Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a huge “win” for Trump.

11-12-2018 , 02:58 PM

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In which Fox News decides if it's even going to put up the pretense of being a news outlet and instead air Hannity nonstop:

Will Fox News survive as a house united? A look at the cable network’s ongoing drama in the Trump era.

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“I love ‘Fox & Friends’ and anything after 5 p.m.,” Cabo said. “Anything in between, they are more Democrat than Republican.”

The economic writing is on the wall for "serious" news guys on Fox like Brett Baier and Brit Hume. Actual shoe-leather reporting is expensive and no one really gives a rip about Fox's news coverage anyway. Fox viewers want angry shouty guys like Hannity and Carlson to yell about caravans or whatever 24/7, and that kind of content is dirt cheap to produce.

11-14-2018 , 11:27 AM

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US Media could take a lesson from this guy

11-15-2018 , 12:51 AM

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Designating and cheering each other as heroes for basically nothing remotely commendable must be a common thing on Fox now. The last two times I checked there Hannity was praising (for an uncomfortably long time) Tucker for his legendary, I don't know, existing(?) through the previous week, and today Hannity's guests I saw were in awe of wise cinder block head because he kept prefacing every Avenatti attack with something about presumption of innocence. I think every one actually had some version of "you're bigger than me, you're amazing, I couldn't give him that" chirped up on cue