Notice that the "tariff bonus" for every American has turned into $1,776 to every active member of the military. Because, of course, a would-be dictator needs the unwavering, unquestioning loyalty of the armed forces, and what better way to get it than by buying it?
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President's Televised Address
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Absolutely anything to justify the abject failure of the press. Said media has zero issue telling us what we heard after other events and other presidents’ remarks. Yet in lieu of analysis and the most basic fact checking, they pretend what we saw wasn’t a deranged, dementia-addled old man spewing 20 minutes of outright lies, distortions, mathematical impossibilities, blame shifting, incoherence, and unsubstantiated rambling.
If you’re going to have your lead broadcast anchor there to talk, then have him do something—anything—resembling journalism. Otherwise just run the closing social report graphic and go back to the whatever, whoever ball show they interrupted.
But it’s not just what didn’t happen in the moment. The morning show was no better. To pretend that rambling verbal vomit was a legitimate address about actual policy matters is journalistic malpractice.
But I’m sure there’s, as always, a perfectly good corporatist justification for cowering and acquiescing. Because principles and standards are worth nothing.
The only reason why you know anything about what's really going on is because the press tells you.
The president spoke on TV. He interrupted Christmas shows with angry revenge politics. What do you call that?
That's Fox's SOP though. In and out on special reports. They rarely go to the panel or a guest.
Primarily because they don't have a network news department. Just the Fox News Channel.
Thanks for making the point. The corporate press is always correct. Always doing what the people want. Always doing independent journalism.
Dear lord, when they lie to our face, they don’t deserve this type of constant fluffing.
No the people DON'T want it. They DON'T want media telling them what's really happening. That's why they elected a TV star president.
The people got what they wanted. They wanted a guy to defund NPR. They wanted him to intimidate the media. It's why they elected him. Right?
So he could interrupt happy Christmas music and yell at us about all the great things he's done. Great TV. Boffo for ratings.
That was the funny part to me. I'm watching happy Christmas music, and the VO interrupts and says, "Now for a special report."
If I didn't know, I thought the world was ending. In a way it was. We watched it on TV. George Orwell couldn't have scripted it better.
I didn't want this!
I'm quite horrified that anyone would want this. And they are indeed getting exactly what they asked for, but I never asked to be dragged down with them!
Good point.
I think the premise of this thread was basically to discuss, among other things, which networks preempted what.
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I started the thread. Yes, as I said, it was amazing how the networks handled it. Nothing was pre-empted. It was just dropped in as a 20 minute commercial. I suspect most viewers treated it that way. The thing that struck me was just how bad it was as a TV show. They should talk to Mark Burnett. He figured out how to make this guy palatable. Quite a contrast to Jeff Probst.
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Just imagine what Fox News and Newsmax would be saying if this happened during the previous administration, and the TV networks handled it the same way.
A far cry from when a president was roundly criticized for going on TV and telling us to put on a sweater and lower the thermostat to save energy.
A far cry from when a president was roundly criticized for going on TV and telling us to put on a sweater and lower the thermostat to save energy.
Festivus began early this year, with the Airing of Grievances.
What's Festivus???
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
You don’t want it. Tens of millions of us didn’t see “Have ABC News abdicate all journalistic integrity” on the ballot. We didn’t see “ignore the lies of this administration” on the ballot. We didn’t see “disregard the pain and suffering of millions of people on the ballot because it doesn’t fit his lies” on the ballot.
Remarkable oversimplification. Just remarkable. Just to pick one thread, we’re just going to pretend misogyny and racism aren’t real in this country? Really?
That remains to be seen.
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