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When are people going to realize that the media's sensational reporting is for profit only?

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It is becoming more and more obvious to me. The 2016 election was TOO GOOD for ratings. Profits must have been tremendous. CNN, MSNBC, ABC News loved Trump and sensationalized everything he did before it became obvious he was going to win the nomination and then fanned the anti-trump story. Fox, Breitbart, and other right leaning sites gashed Clinton and finally killed her chances. Everyone was winning. Everyone was cashing in. The election ended....how do they now keep the cash flowing? It is obvious. Both sides must sensationalize everything to maintain that rating number, revenue stream, and relevance.

Both sides do it. CNN and MSNBC spin and magnify everything Trump does. He is incompetent enough without the sensationalism. He will eventually kill his own presidency. Yet, CNN ran the same stories over and over basically claiming Trump supported the White Nationalist. Fox does the same from the other side. They can't slam the dems specifically so they are going after the far left. I am sitting here right now looking at CNN.com and Foxnews.com. On Fox there is an video linked from a Mark Steyn that says "The left want to tie all republicans to Nazis." Blatantly not true. This is opinion on the news page. Sensationalism on par with MSNBC (See Rachel Maddow). Most of my immediate family is republican and maybe one might be "alt-right." Many are evangelical Christians. All are hardworking mainstream Americans that just happen to be conservative in their values, and fiscally or socially conservative. Most dems would never link 95% of them to anything Nazi or anything evil.

Just to right of that video is one from the beautiful but talentless Tomi Lahren. Her video is titled "The left is normalizing police hatred." Sure some on the far-left or "hard-left" hate police, but mainstream democrats sure don't. Hell, most dems would tell you that they ought to lock up any bastard that attacks an officer and many, if not most, would favor the death penalty in capital murder convictions for cop killers. CNN has an opinion linked on their front page from a Fareed Zakaria about today's elites. Why is not labeled as opinion? Obviously these pieces are not news, yet the outlets parade them on their front page as if Tomi Lahren's voice is somehow linked to coherent thought, analysis, and real news.

So why the sensationalism? Profit pure and simple. Why do both sides accept this ridiculous reporting of opinion pieces as the "news"? Maybe Bannon is a genius because he tapped into the anger of the Alt-Right and provided the outlet that made him both wealthy and relevant. Maybe Soros realized that stirring radical liberalism was his ticket to global relevance? Nevertheless, we all need to push back on this irresponsible reporting and demand that the news be treated as the news with proper constraint shown when it comes to right and left bias. But we don't. We can't. People on both sides eat it up, click the bait, and make money for the real pot-stirrers in America, the media. Just this past week, Rush Limbaugh said we are headed for civil war.....as a child of the 60's, how quickly he forgets (he didn't) how much more volatile the 60's were than today. We have had a handful of violent demonstrations since Ferguson. In the 60's, they happened regularly whether related to Civil Rights, Vietnam, or other social causes. Blacks, hippies, draft protestors were beaten, jailed, Same for the violent labor riots, women's suffrage movement, and the KKK marches of the 20s and 30s. Damn you Rush Limbaugh and others for fanning discontent for the benefit of your ratings. The media understand sensationalism is good for business and therefore profits. The idiot monolithic thinkers can't get enough of it. The masses stay silent. We all pay.
 
Glad to see that you agree that they are pushing the fake Russia story
 
Glad to see that you agree that they are pushing the fake Russia story

Again, your inability to comprehend above the 4th grade level is an indictment of our entire educational system, but I digress. I said they sensationalize everything. I never said it was fake.
 
Again, your inability to comprehend above the 4th grade level is an indictment of our entire educational system, but I digress. I said they sensationalize everything. I never said it was fake.

You're too easy. Must run in your family.
 
Again, your inability to comprehend above the 4th grade level is an indictment of our entire educational system, but I digress. I said they sensationalize everything. I never said it was fake.
It is fake. It is obviously fake. If anyone was giving 411 to Russia it was spies in the DNC.
 
the left is the media...

it's been that way for a while...
 
It is fake. It is obviously fake. If anyone was giving 411 to Russia it was spies in the DNC.

You miss the entire point of my post simply because you and the others that are far right refuse to believe the media manipulates you just as easily as they manipulate the left. The media thrives on conflict. Whether its the head of Fox, CNN, NBC, or Breitbart, they make money when you tune-in and enter their websites. They more they can enflame, the more who watch or enter. You mean to tell me anybody really thinks the Rachel Maddow show is newsworthy? Hannity? Limbaugh? They pander to emotion.
 
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It is fake. It is obviously fake. If anyone was giving 411 to Russia it was spies in the DNC.

Yeah, I'm sure you're right. Flynn has nothing to worry about. He was just trying to confuse everyone with those offers for a plea deal. Manafort has nothing to worry about either. The FBI executing an early-morning raid was just showmanship. I'm sure he is cooperating fully. Trump Jr. has nothing to worry about. It is very typical that you first lie about a meeting altogether, then when you realize there is proof of the meeting it is typical to lie about the meeting being about adoption and then when you realize there was an e-mail documenting the purpose of the meeting was actually about collusion, you just play stupid and pretend there is nothing illegal about it.

Everything is cool. It is fake news. The media is just out to get trump.

Btw, word is the investigation will probably be wrapped up this fall.
 
Yeah, I'm sure you're right. Flynn has nothing to worry about. He was just trying to confuse everyone with those offers for a plea deal. Manafort has nothing to worry about either. The FBI executing an early-morning raid was just showmanship. I'm sure he is cooperating fully. Trump Jr. has nothing to worry about. It is very typical that you first lie about a meeting altogether, then when you realize there is proof of the meeting it is typical to lie about the meeting being about adoption and then when you realize there was an e-mail documenting the purpose of the meeting was actually about collusion, you just play stupid and pretend there is nothing illegal about it.

Everything is cool. It is fake news. The media is just out to get trump.

Btw, word is the investigation will probably be wrapped up this fall.

Only if one is a monolithic thinker as I noted in the opening post could one believe this is fake. Now maybe nothing of substance against DJT materializes, but how can anyone look at the multiple lies told by junior and say this is all fake? He admitted he met with the Russians to get dirt........ If I meet with a hit-man to kill my wife, it is a crime no matter if the hit occurs or not. Right? So meeting with the Russians to get dirt is ok with Dave because junior said he didn't get anything. Amazing.
 
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On Fox there is an video linked from a Mark Steyn that says "The left want to tie all republicans to Nazis."
Have you even paid attention to just liberals on this board? How many of us on the right have been accused as being racists, bigots, scum, etc. by every single one of the leftists on this board? Answer is every one of us on the right has. Any one who openly supports Trump by wearing a hat or shirt is labeled a racist and has profanity thrown at them when encountering opposing thought. It's documented every day on this board. Look at the girls who were in DC visiting and sightseeing, they were verbally asaulted for their open support. People like Country feel that type of behavior is justified. Another example was given on this board that if you share similar thoughts and are protesting the removal of statues that if the Nazis showed up, and you didn't leave, then you were no different. Ridiculous logic, that wasn't accepted when the tables were turned vis a vis the Antifa.

Most dems would never link 95% of them to anything Nazi or anything evil.
I disagree, especially when discussing most metropolitan Dems, who are distinctly different than Dems back in WV. We have friends who think we're racists because we're Republicans. Hell, anyone who opposed Obama's leadership only did so because we were racists. I believe I've even seen you make that same accusation. I know, Keyser, Country, MWV, RPJ, Bru, and several others have said as much.

Her video is titled "The left is normalizing police hatred." Sure some on the far-left or "hard-left" hate police, but mainstream democrats sure don't
If you aren't loudly condemning Antifa and BLM then you are normalizing Police Hatred, or you're just ignorant either intentionally, or through lack of investigation, towards what those movements have become.

And as far as the media are concerned, there is one side who has been pillorying the media for their irresponsible approach in reporting. What happens? We're mocked and compared to Nazis, because, ya know, that's what Hitler did.

Now having said all of that, I understand all needs be done is to adjust the talking points and the rights is just as guilty. Your specific examples listed though, were by in large whether you realize it or not was a condemnation of the right's behavior as you didn't list any wrong doing on the left. I got the jist of your post as being neutral in intent, but even in your attempt at neutrality, your left leaning bias still came through.
 
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Have you even paid attention to just liberals on this board? How many of us on the right have been accused as being racists, bigots, scum, etc. by every single one of the leftists on this board? Answer is every one of us on the right has. Any one who openly supports Trump by wearing a hat or shirt is labeled a racist and has profanity thrown at them when encountering opposing thought. It's documented every day on this board. Look at the girls who were in DC visiting and sightseeing, they were verbally asaulted for their open support. People like Country feel that type of behavior is justified. Another example was given on this board that if you share similar thoughts and are protesting the removal of statues that if the Nazis showed up, and you didn't leave, then you were no different. Ridiculous logic, that wasn't accepted when the tables were turned vis a vis the Antifa.


I disagree, especially when discussing most metropolitan Dems, who are distinctly different than Dems back in WV. We have friends who think we're racists because we're Republicans. Hell, anyone who opposed Obama's leadership only did so because we were racists. I believe I've even seen you make that same accusation. I know, Keyser, Country, MWV, RPJ, Bru, and several others have said as much..

I have never accused anyone of being racist simply because they opposed Obama. Many who opposed Obama were racist and had no other reasons that they used in support of their opposition.

Many of the right on this board justified and defended the nazis, their violence in Charlottesville and blamed the victim for getting ran over and murdered. Some even argued that it wasn't murder. Well, I have news for them, the charge against the driver is 2nd degree murder. And it is now classified as an act of domestic terrorism.

So yeah, anyone who defends the violent acts of the nazis or agrees with their ideology are racists.

For the record, I am not advocating the violence perpetrated by Antifa.

And btw, I didn't read your mini novel; only the paragraphs quoted.
 
What's weird is I think there are more racist right-wingers on here now, than I did when I joined. Some don't hide it, some try to hide it but aren't very good at it. There are still some that are not racist though, for sure.
 
I'm amazed at how much time and emotion people put into all this stuff. Forget a persons particular view. Even accepting whatever their view is as valid how can people spend all day clicking and watching and reading this stuff. We have so many other things to do and read and listen to, etc and yet people just shove their same stuff into their brains constantly.

Considering how much there is on the Internet even if there really was one subject that was fascinating it wouldn't make sense to spend so much time on it at the expense of all the other interesting things there are to read about and see. Seriously, if you're way over the top into this political stuff, just take one day to surf the web but purposely veer away from any political stuff you come across. Just one day. You'll be amazed at how much good stuff you're missing just so you can pointlessly hash out the latest political crisis for the 4,000th time.
 
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I'm amazed at how much time and emotion people put into all this stuff. Forget a persons particular view. Even accepting whatever their view is as valid how can people spend all day clicking and watching and reading this stuff. We have so many other things to do and read and listen to, etc and yet people just shove their same stuff into their brains constantly.

Considering how much there is on the Internet even if there really was one subject that was fascinating it wouldn't make sense to spend so much time on it at the expense of all the other interesting things there are to read about and see. Seriously, if you're way over the top into this political stuff, just take one day to surf the web but purposely veer away from any political stuff you come across. Just one day. You'll be amazed at how much good stuff you're missing just so you can pointlessly hash out the latest political crisis for the 4,000th time.
Always leads me to porn.
 
Not in my opinion it's not. I think it's pretty clear the fault lies with the driver of the vehicle. Nothing wrong with acknowledging stupidity.
Well in my opinion it does. I'm right. You're wrong. Get over it.

The dude slammed his vehicle in to a crowd of people/other vehicles at 40 mph and people are expected to act rationally?
 
Well in my opinion it does. I'm right. You're wrong. Get over it.

The dude slammed his vehicle in to a crowd of people/other vehicles at 40 mph and people are expected to act rationally?
I was always told, if you're gonna be dumb, be tough.
 
Have you even paid attention to just liberals on this board? How many of us on the right have been accused as being racists, bigots, scum, etc. by every single one of the leftists on this board? Answer is every one of us on the right has. Any one who openly supports Trump by wearing a hat or shirt is labeled a racist and has profanity thrown at them when encountering opposing thought. It's documented every day on this board. Look at the girls who were in DC visiting and sightseeing, they were verbally asaulted for their open support. People like Country feel that type of behavior is justified. Another example was given on this board that if you share similar thoughts and are protesting the removal of statues that if the Nazis showed up, and you didn't leave, then you were no different. Ridiculous logic, that wasn't accepted when the tables were turned vis a vis the Antifa.


I disagree, especially when discussing most metropolitan Dems, who are distinctly different than Dems back in WV. We have friends who think we're racists because we're Republicans. Hell, anyone who opposed Obama's leadership only did so because we were racists. I believe I've even seen you make that same accusation. I know, Keyser, Country, MWV, RPJ, Bru, and several others have said as much.


If you aren't loudly condemning Antifa and BLM then you are normalizing Police Hatred, or you're just ignorant either intentionally, or through lack of investigation, towards what those movements have become.

And as far as the media are concerned, there is one side who has been pillorying the media for their irresponsible approach in reporting. What happens? We're mocked and compared to Nazis, because, ya know, that's what Hitler did.

Now having said all of that, I understand all needs be done is to adjust the talking points and the rights is just as guilty. Your specific examples listed though, were by in large whether you realize it or not was a condemnation of the right's behavior as you didn't list any wrong doing on the left. I got the jist of your post as being neutral in intent, but even in your attempt at neutrality, your left leaning bias still came through.

First of all, it is nearly impossible for anyone's bias to be neutralized in anything they do. We all have bias. The most important aspect of bias is understanding that we all have bias. Secondly, I didn't vote for Obama in 2012 so why would I call anyone else who didn't support him a racist? But I have said, a percentage of the right's "Hatred" of Obama is racially driven. People on here will state emphatically he was the worst president ever. Jimmy Carter was the worst in my adult lifetime and Obama was far better that Carter.

I clearly called out Rachel Maddow from MSNBC Fared Zakaria from CNN for sensationalism as well as MSNBC and CNN in general. So why would you say I didn't list any wrong doing on the left?

Now to the pinning of the labels of racists and cop haters on the right and left. First of all, sitting at this keyboard and calling 82 or 2007 a racist or me a cop hater is easy. We don't know each other. We aren't bound to be gentleman or honorable on an internet message board. Therefore we take liberties we would never take sitting in a board room. If you really knew me, you would understand I wanted to be a cop my entire life. One of my biggest regrets was not pursuing the FBI upon graduation or in 1996 when I had a final chance. I can't stand to see a person littering let alone understand why somebody would shoot another just because they live on a certain street. I am almost fanatical when it comes to law and order and respect for police and I am a dem. 2007 may have 2 Asian kids and a Jewish wife for all I know and I have called him a racist a dozen times.

But the biggest issue I take with your response is related to the media. I know when Rachel Maddow or Van Jones is pontificating. I know when Rush Limbaugh is pandering to his listeners. I can see through Tomi Lahren's outrageous outrage. But many can't. Americans need to call out the sensationalism on both sides. Amazingly, your response shows you agree with these claims by Lahren and Steyn and that bucket all dems into broad, negative categories which are no different than the asinine claims that all supporters of Trump are Nazis. It goes both ways Dog. Media wants to sell ad space. The more they are watched or read, the more the ad space sells for. That is the way it works. Rachel Maddow and Steve Bannon know this far too well.
 
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