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  What is your opinion of the news media?

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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  freemindfade

  sir82, Definitely social media driven, mainly Facebook and Twitter, but I think the media is still a part of the hsyteria.

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/immigrant-community-on-high-alert-fearing-trumps-deportation-force/2017/02/11/e5c30d06-f06f-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html?utm_term=.17a778273e17

  Immigrant community on high alert, fearing Trump’s ‘deportation force’
  Fear and panic have gripped America’s immigrant community as reports circulate that federal agents have become newly aggressive under President Trump, who campaigned for office with a vow to create a “deportation force.”

  http://www.laweekly.com/news/was-the-la-immigration-sweep-a-preview-of-whats-to-come-7932258

  Was the L.A. Immigration Sweep a Preview of What's to Come?

  If you can honestly believe the media plays not part in getting this insanity, you are delusional. Media is spreading widespread anxiety that is usually baseless or sensational instead of factual.
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  491

  What is your opinion of the news media?

  by minimus in

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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  freemindfade

  Azor you are taking it to an attack on Trump again when the OP is about the media. You started out there and drifted back into your opinions on Trump which we all have. Separate Trump from the media's behavior, has the media gotten more extreme with its BS? And is that excusable because it's your opinion his behavior should not be normalized? Do two wrongs make a right?
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  491

  What is your opinion of the news media?

  by minimus in

  1. social
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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  freemindfade

  I have no problem with opinions. Also, I put up some recent facts that back up exactly what I am talking about when ICE basically had to tweet that the media is being misleading to the point of putting law enforcement in danger. Yes, it's just one sample, but it's super recent and super relevant. The links which DJS posted which I respect, were geared towards Trump himself being dishonest, I believe, and not anything to do with the integrity of the media which this OP is about no?

  

  Are we talking about Trump ability to embellish or lie? Or the media being trust worthy?
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  What is your opinion of the news media?

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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  freemindfade

  But we can fact check rather easily to determine who is lying, but only if we get rid of our biases.

  Sadly I now feel the need to fact check absolutely every bloody thing I see to an extreme degree. That is a good indicator how untrustworthy news media sources have become, and gain it's not even facts, the spin has become outrageous. That's not lying its something else. Fox news and even more extreme sources can have facts, but the headline and story is usually clearly trying to spin it in an extreme way.

  Here is the thing with Trump, people have been aware for sometime the politicians of the establishment AND the media have been pissing on their leg. That has brought us to this, for good or bad, it has created the Trump era, where people don't care as much about his faults as his willingness to shit back on both of them. He's the bully hired to hit the other bullies, it is what it is now.
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  What is your opinion of the news media?

  by minimus in

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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  freemindfade

  Them trying to spin his interaction with April Ryan is being played up as racist, I heard the audio clip on XM this morning (they were asserting its racist BTW), and I feel it's another stretch to try and nitpick every little iota of anything he does and spin it. I really don't believe he was being racist upon listening to the actual clip and judging for myself. This is the crap I can't stand. CNN claiming that Adel winning instead of Beyonce, SWEET LETS RACE BAIT THAT SHIT!!! It's really enough from them already. The media plays a bigger role in dividing this awesome country than just about anything else. They makes us believe women don't have rights, and we are institutionally racist, and on and on... enough!
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  491

  What is your opinion of the news media?

  by minimus in

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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  freemindfade

  You are welcome DJS, as always I appreciate your comments even when we don't agree on everything I think you are one of the few sound ones.

  I think the media is if it bleeds it leads most the time. You can get some sampling of truth from a lot of it, but the spin (for left and right) definitely go harder on the fringe extremities which are what people looking for an echo chamber are more likely to gravitate too. So you have a huge boner for Clinton, Inc and the democratic party has become, CNN is amazing, if the GOP gets you all hot and bothered you go Fox for further into extreme Breitbart. Most of these news outlets I have no respect for whatsoever because of the hard spin. In some way's I think Trump knows it too and is playing into it because it is keeping him top of the headlines. The furthest left and furthest right will publish things that are factual that you

  Most of these news outlets I have no respect for whatsoever because of the hard spin. In some way's I think Trump knows it too and is playing into it because it is keeping him top of the headlines. The furthest left and furthest right will publish things that are factual that you won't find in the other, but when you actually read what they right or just the headline you feel the propaganda. BOTH WAYS. So I don't trust them, many stories I have seen against trump based on the headline, once I read I was like that was extremely over sensationalized. And the more the CNN's and Hoff Posts engage in this

  So I don't trust them, many stories I have seen against trump based on the headline, once I read I was like that was extremely over sensationalized. And the more the CNN's and Hoff Posts engage in this low level nonsense, the more credibility they give to the orange one as you say. What happened to the Michelle Obama & Clinton Inc motto," they go low we do high"?? That idea is long dead and gone from the moment everyone woke up and realized Trump could win and then did, since then the left has been more vitriol and underhanded than I have seen in my 37 years. They have gone way low
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  What is your opinion of the news media?

  by minimus in

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  to me they have an agenda and they really don't care about professional journalism.

  most are untrustworthy and that's a shame.

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  freemindfade

  

  

  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pushing back on media reports that President Trump has unleashed a mean-spirited national raid on immigrants, noting that it rounded up over 350 percent more during one sweep under former President Obama.
  
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  Trump Voters, Is This What You Voted For?

  by Village Idiot in

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  all that talk about hillary clinton's unsecured e-mails?

  read the following:.

  "deagazio posted additional photos from the weekend, including one of his dining companions kissing trump on the cheek, a selfie with white house strategist steve bannon and another selfie identifying a man named rick who he says is responsible for carrying the nuclear “football,” which allows the president to authorize a nuclear attack while away from the white house.. "“this is rick,” wrote deagazio.

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  freemindfade

  Happy Valentines Day

  
  
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  Trump Voters, Is This What You Voted For?

  by Village Idiot in

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  all that talk about hillary clinton's unsecured e-mails?

  read the following:.

  "deagazio posted additional photos from the weekend, including one of his dining companions kissing trump on the cheek, a selfie with white house strategist steve bannon and another selfie identifying a man named rick who he says is responsible for carrying the nuclear “football,” which allows the president to authorize a nuclear attack while away from the white house.. "“this is rick,” wrote deagazio.

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  freemindfade

  just fine

  yea I know, that sucks. I tend to be far more capitalistic. I believe in small government, ours is bloated fat ass. Dana Carvey in a standup routine said something to the effect that capitalism is like an Apple Store and Socialism is like the DMV lol

  Alright kids im clocking out of this madness for today, no more pain in the ass questions bohm
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  Trump Voters, Is This What You Voted For?

  by Village Idiot in

  1. social
  2. current

  all that talk about hillary clinton's unsecured e-mails?

  read the following:.

  "deagazio posted additional photos from the weekend, including one of his dining companions kissing trump on the cheek, a selfie with white house strategist steve bannon and another selfie identifying a man named rick who he says is responsible for carrying the nuclear “football,” which allows the president to authorize a nuclear attack while away from the white house.. "“this is rick,” wrote deagazio.

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  freemindfade

  “This wasn’t the worst [firefight of my life], but it was the longest,” Paronto says. “The only difference with this one was that we were left behind. That’s just the truth. No support came. Period.”

  A congressional committee found that no support was available but Tiegn said this:

  “A lot of politicians don’t realize that we were all in the military and we know a lot of the military guys, and they tell us things,” Tiegen says. “One pilot said to us that [the government] was afraid of another ‘Black Hawk Down’ scenario.”

  Also Paronto said

  “There are pilots that come up to us and say, ‘Sorry, dude. We were ready to go,’ ” Geist says.