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Some of the networks wisely determined that the speech was unfounded, baseless, and harmful. News networks do not need to be a spigot for outright lies and fab
by sk5t 6y ago
Some of the networks wisely determined that the speech was unfounded, baseless, and harmful. News networks do not need to be a spigot for outright lies and fabrication.
- RonanTheGrey 6y agoSorry, I want to know what my public servants are saying. How we can we make sure they are serving us if their words are being hidden from us?
- eyeball 6y agoThe party will take care of that for you. Shhh.
- jackson1442 6y agoWasn't it streamed by the White House itself as well? Should every TV station be required to air every public servant's statements? Surely going to the source isn't too big of a burden for most.
- bot41 6y agoit's not every tv station in question it's about news stations covering the election. 'every public servant' is not in question.. it's about the current president of the USA
- ntsplnkv2 6y agoHow can you make sure they are serving you if he doesn't hold press conferences for hundreds of days?
- thomastjeffery 6y agoAnd you do. There wasn't anything of substance said in the part of the speech that wasn't aired. Feel free to watch the whole thing. No one is stopping you. There is a difference between censorship and moderation. Trump was literally trolling on CNBC's platform, and they chose to confront that.
- jpindar 6y agoWatch it on CSPAN. That's what CSPAN is for, showing complete government events without interruption or editorializing.
- blub 6y agoPeople that have a working brain shouldn't care what networks think or determine. Those networks must limit themselves to neutrally reporting the news and let the people make up their minds. This election has proven that US, but also Western-European media are extremely biased and see themselves as the arbiters of truth. Reading German media I noticed - without exaggeration - that Trump was getting worse press than actual real dictators. Mainstream German newspapers had articles where they invited mental health specialists to speculate on what mental afflictions Trump might be suffering from. Extremely unethical show from the mainstream media.
- ghaff 6y ago>see themselves as the arbiters of truth They are at some level. Of course, a newspaper isn't going to present all sources as being of equal authority. If someone is spouting nonsense at some point you cut them off.
- seek3r 6y agoI agree with you, but I think that I also get the opposite PoV. Sure, it happened to Trump this time because it was telling lies. But imagine what would happen if they did the same to a president who was telling truths that the network didn’t like. It’s about the power that allows the act, not the act itself.
- ghaff 6y agoThe media clearly has power. And it's not wrong to observe that the mainstream English language media tends to be associated with a certain class, worldview, and educational system. On the other hand, there has never been an era when individuals had as much ability to male their voices heard or, for better or worse, such diversity of news (and "news") sources. There's also the fact that Twitter is a platform and not a publication. And there are certainly questions of what happens when dominant platforms that control access to eyeballs start regulating what people can people can publish there according to reality as it exists for the tech world.
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- skinkestek 6y agoHere's the problem : Most mainstream media has been pushing the well known hoax about "fine people on both sides" being about white supremacists for far too long to have much credibility left when wanting to point out others unfounded, baseless and harmful lies.