Why is Rachel Maddow’s program the only show on pretty much any network that is actually covering the protests going on all across America? What the hell is happening with our media?
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America appears to no longer have main stream media journalist that actually "report" the news instead they have been replaced with journalist who gives their opinion of the news for ratings and corporate profit.
The protests aren’t too big to ignore yet. Most look like a couple hundred people. Maybe the biggest a couple of thousand. When (if) the protests are tens of thousands, then they will get covered
I wondered this myself. There's a protest in 50 states, it might hit the local larger network for like 1 minute (DC region) then that's it. I think the media is scared to get sued. But regardless, it's working.
Guessing because everybody doesn’t want to get sued for telling the truth and pissing off Mango Mussolini. I’m actually shocked with Comcast selling off MSNBC that they are letting her tell the truth.
This is a rhetorical question, right? They largely ignored about 1 million protestors during the Republican convention 2004. Airbrushed us from the historical record. They are, mostly, an enemy of progress and have abdicated their responsibility under the 1st amendment to sell more cars
I've subscribed to Democracy Docket, Wired, The Atlantic, and Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American. The latter are particularly helpful, because she documents sources exhaustively and includes them in the letters.
Roger Ailes succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. He's looking up and smiling at the neutered mainstream media tilting closer to the right after every election cycle, no matter which party wins.
Pretty much the same thing that is happening on X on here in the news feeds on apple 🍎 on AARP well everywhere. Stories on weight gain . Pretty pictures. The Kennedy center . Your next cruise. Time line cleanse. Your fav rock and roll song . Bullshit
Rachel Maddow is one of the best voices out there. I will miss the five days a week of her show when the first 100 days of Musk/Trump end. Thom is the other great voice.
The Fourth Estate has been massively letting us down for years now, but especially the last year. I've stopped watching anything other that @msnbc.com primetime, and I've cancelled my subs. Most of them deserve to go extinct.
The U.S. “News media” consists mainly of a few for-profit corporations and they don’t give a shit about the U.S.A. — they’re all about ratings & profits. They have learned that the best rating numbers come from pushing drama and division; simply reporting the news isn’t what they do.
You don't suppose Donald Trump has gotten to them, do you? Just a tad maybe, in order to remind them of his omnipotence? Fear has remarkable penetrative properties. Once it reaches the bowels, he owns you.
It'd be great if she (and you!) and others also gave folks an ongoing, daily heads up about protests BEFORE they happen so we can increase our numbers. We need all the independent media we can get to help spread the word. 🙏
I'd like to know why she finds this bs funny. Her affect is all wrong for this moment. Ppl are losing jobs, homes, health coverage and we're all losing our Democracy. And she's yucking it up on TV like it's all a big joke.
Irrelevant to your post, but in response to your latest video clip posted to YouTube.. I've been sharing a link to this video for years on another platform. Not sure if you have ever seen it prior but it's certainly something.
The COMCAST board room are ALL tRUmpies. They all 'donated' to him in hopes of buying his 'protection' rather than drawing his wrath. They may as well be a mom & pop store at street level paying wise guys for 'protection.' 😡
I listen to Rachel on SiriusXM cable broke sometimes back and when the state of the news is bad enough I switch to music with no commercials for a while
Mainstream Media is owned by rich Republicans and they are now Propaganda spewing for the Convicted Felon and Rapist. They want that huge tax cut The Convicted Felon and Rapist promised them
Democrats don't understand that the U.S. is not ready for a female president. Both times he won, it was against women. Many folks didn't vote because they didn't know Harris's agenda.
I would have thought it was obvious long before now that CABLE news is not news, and that all the trusted actual news orgs are now owned by techbro billionaires who want an oligarchy.
Money buys a lot of leverage especially when wielded by misanthropes. Humanity is at risk due premeditated stupidity and a cataclysm of avarice justified by blasphemous distortion of religion
Tom, you know as well as anyone that the majority of main stream media, from newspapers to radio to TV to X are owned by right wing millionaires and billionaires.
Just shocking to see that no one in the GOP, save Cheney and Kissinger has drawn the line at Nazi.
If it’s the only show you watch how do you know whether they are covering those protests? I just read in 3 different newspapers that in the retirement community of Laguna Woods in Orange County,CA, folks protested a Jan 6 speaker at GOP club event.
News media is a corporate pig. Local news is pathetic. The propaganda is all over the fucking place. They’re doing with Hitler did except Hitler shut down the press and the American press is a collaborator.
Protest don’t really work anyway. Intimidation works.
The general public does not have the time to watch anything other than the “local” news- school, family, work, other responsibilities, I think the same reason Harris lost- no time to do in depth analysis about much of anything.
With the Muskites cutting jobs, SS, Medicaid- this may change.
Mainstream media is afraid of pissing off trump because they might lose “ access “ to him. I say good, lose access if all they’re going to do is repeat trump’s lies and propaganda! The media needs to get back to basics and do their jobs - reporting facts!
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If you don't tow the line, they boot you out of the clubhouse.
I believe the geopolitical term is 'CYA'🤔🤐
Protecting profits
Not alienating sponsors
Not getting a bullshit lawsuit thrown at them by tRump
I don’t know why anyone would expect more from them?
I've subscribed to Democracy Docket, Wired, The Atlantic, and Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American. The latter are particularly helpful, because she documents sources exhaustively and includes them in the letters.
They don't GAF about America, Americans, or democracy
There's this ancient method of information-sharing called "reading".
It'd be great if she (and you!) and others also gave folks an ongoing, daily heads up about protests BEFORE they happen so we can increase our numbers. We need all the independent media we can get to help spread the word. 🙏
Go Rachel!
Go Thom!
The greed of capitalism always comes home to roost...
Destroyers of society. Zionist lapdogs.
Maddow is a huge propaganda pusher.
Zionists are embedded across the country, and she's one of them.
Just shocking to see that no one in the GOP, save Cheney and Kissinger has drawn the line at Nazi.
The daily chaos is intentional.
Protest don’t really work anyway. Intimidation works.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7-_E9oJyKYg&pp=ygVCZG9uYWxkIHRydW1wIGlzIGEgcGllY2Ugb2Ygc2hpdCBhbmQgc28gaGlzIHN1cHBvcnRlcnMgZmF0IGJhc3RhcmRv
With the Muskites cutting jobs, SS, Medicaid- this may change.
Massive error in judgement.