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2023-02-06 -Great Cultural Revolution

The media's road to ruin its own credibility in war on Trump

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Posted by Fred 2023-02-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Chinese spy balloons over US during Trump admin 'discovered after' he left office: senior Biden official

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-06 00:34|| 2023-02-06 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Unnamed Anonymous Official lies. No film @ 11pm

Posted by Frank G 2023-02-06 06:32|| 2023-02-06 06:32|| Front Page Top

#3 "Discovered"? Like a few boxes in a locked garage housing a Corvette?

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-02-06 07:16|| 2023-02-06 07:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Discovery, it cases such as these, is the red-headed stepchild of invention.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-06 07:39|| 2023-02-06 07:39|| Front Page Top

#5 I'd argue that the media never has had any credibility.

Posted by Silentbrick 2023-02-06 07:52|| 2023-02-06 07:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Yellow journalism, the use of lurid features and sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation. The phrase was coined in the 1890s to describe the tactics employed in the furious competition between two New York City newspapers, the World and the Journal. - Britannica

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-02-06 10:30|| 2023-02-06 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 The lies are sad. The people who believe them are the danger.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-06 11:05|| 2023-02-06 11:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Journalistic standards have been theoretical or low in my lifetime. Prior to that there was competition between news outlets that resulted mostly sensationalism. Since the founding of our country, newspapers have been weaponized to swing public opinion one way or another - often towards war or invasion. I don’t find any evidence in American history of media being objective about politics.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-06 12:22|| 2023-02-06 12:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Chinese spy balloons over US during Trump admin 'discovered after' he left office: senior Biden official

The problem with that story is that these "officials" have ruined their credibility. Nobody believes it and, if they do, they are suspicious that intel community operatives did not inform Trump about it knowing that Trump would have ordered the balloon to be shot down. The Chinese would have then been upset with them. Can't have that.

They're like the boy who called wolf. Nobody believes them anymore. The danger is that some day they might need to tell us something really important and nobody will believe it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-02-06 12:34|| 2023-02-06 12:34|| Front Page Top

#10 The story that "It happened under Trump too" is a pig. About the time they rushed out to put lipstick on it, it turned into a turd. Now they are polishing as fast as they can...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-06 12:52|| 2023-02-06 12:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Regarding the CCP Spy Balloon.
We all remember Trump could not help anyone or do anything w/o the media playing a Evil Demon Trump narrative.

So what are the odds that this actually also happened under the Trump Admin and the LSD's did not say a word. Nor the Media play it to push Anti-Trump propaganda and click bait revenues.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-02-06 14:36|| 2023-02-06 14:36|| Front Page Top

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