Today's edition of ABC's This Week didn't feature a single member of Congress or White House official. It seems to me the show has moved away from doing combative interviews since ABC's shameful settlement with Trump.
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Every question to Republicans this morning on Meet the Press should be...
How did you become such a spineless, gutless, hypocrite?
Followed by...
If you don't believe the role of government is to help people, why did you enter government work?
IMO, it’s a winning strategy. Nobody has to hear a load of lies and bs. They can actually report what’s happening instead of asking a gang of criminals working for our enemies their opinions. You can’t force the truth out of ppl who can’t be shamed.
ABC bending the knee, CNN getting rid of Jim Acosta. It's looking bad for our media. I was happy though to see the WSJ speak truth to power on a couple of occasions.
There’s a reason an increasing number of (progressive) truth tellers are leaving the archaic & dying traditional news ecosystem in favor of new digital media.
Acquiescing is one of the many reasons.
I want to know wtf happen to journalists today?! They are nothing but cowards and shouldn’t be called journalists anymore! They are entertainers, period! Cronkite, Murrow, Brinkley, Rather ect they were outstanding journalists who reported the truth and what was truly happening in our country!
I watched it this morning. I liked the political analysis and not the politician lie platform. A lengthy segment from the Canadian ambassador was important considering the tariff crisis.
Wow, now we’ll never have some light pushback before moving on. Sunday morning shows do more damage than good. The invitation bestows more credibility to the idea/guest than any pushback.
I'm not mad at this - no respectable news outlet should continue to give Trump allies any air time. That is partly how we got into this f-ing mess in the first place.
Complicit in the theft and destruction of America. Every one of them. First ABC, next watch the direction of CBS now that Paramount settled the 60 Minutes lawsuit & paying ransom demand. Where is the push back? Our representatives need to be on local news in every market sharing this crisis.
I find US news media is about 90% talking head opinions rather than straight reporting and they are obviously heavily influenced by their corporate owners. BBC, by its Charter, must be impartial, accurate and fair. Both left and right claim bias more or less equally.
They all did their best to get Agent Orange back in power, because he sells. Their own greed and lack of integrity is bringing them down on their knees. They're getting what they deserve. Unfortunately, we're the ones who will suffer most.
Every time I turn the TV on the current administration is declaring another pronouncement of some faction of the citizenry losing their rights.
What I am waiting for is someone to give a platform to those who would dispute these actions.
ABC I can give you a guest list!
If you’re a resister,right now you’re blocking ABC on all of your social media platforms to narrow their comms channel and throttle their reach.They are no longer a trusted source.Other independent news sources will do the job.You know the drill.Block and keep your kool-aid covered.
Are they combative interviews? It is just an opportunity for them to not answer questions and tell lies. No meaningful challenges to the lies. See Noem and Schmitt on @meetthepress.com shameless.
Corporate owned media is dying of click chasing and billionaire bias. I donate to NPR and PBS. Who are the most principled journalists that I can pay directly for a subscription?
I cancelled my streaming service 3 months ago. Hence, no broadcast media. It’s all bullshit. I know what’s going on in the world. I don’t need them anymore. I’m embarrassed for them.
I guess it's not worth the risk of upsetting Donald with any criticism. The other giant media corps seem to be doing the same. If they keep paying him millions of dollars, they lose all the gains from the corporate tax cuts.
Corporate/legacy media surrendered long before any settlement made it official. TFGs first term made it clear they didn’t have a clue, and the recent election cycle made it clear that by and large they were comfortably complicit.
PROJECT 2025 IS HAPPENING: People are being reassigned, fired or otherwise under pressure, if they DON'T say that they are mission-aligned, which is the phrase being used by the transition team to mean you will carry out the orders of the president regardless of whether they’re lawful or not.
Nothing productive ever comes from an interview with an elected representative or surrogates. You usually just end up pulling out your hair because they don't know how to give truthful answers. With George, I always thought there would be a chance at pushback
I enjoyed This Week for many, many years. But I’m ashamed of how they have been complicit in destroying our democracy. I can’t watch Sunday morning shows anymore, they add nothing to the conversation and seem like an unfortunate waste of time these days.
Boycott media or journalists that don't adhere to the ethics and principles we expect from our Fourth Estate. They must challenge the Orange Leviathan, like any other leader or entity that is grabbing power lawlessly, or cease to exist.
Abc news🤨
I was down to NBC (Today show and local) I just can't after this past year of what they did and did not report on. I might turn it on for the fluffy weekend stuff but even that. Those local nbc commercials🙄 please just sell products like almost every other nbc talk show that'd be useful
How can corporate media be surrendering to the side they were already on? There's no world in which Trump becomes president without the media bending over backwards to normalize him while sounding air raid sirens about Hillary's emails, Biden's age, the price of eggs, etc.
This era of talking heads is about as enlightening as sports locker room interviews. It is a way for politicians to enhance their brand by picking fights and saying nothing. Maybe report on what they are actually doing and stop using Lyndsay Graham as a spokesmodel for Trump.
Guys, I hate to break it to you. These billion dollar media corporations, are......... CORPORATIONS! 🤣🤣🤣
They love those juicy tax cuts and profits. They don't report the news!
i’m a lvl 60 disabled, cis white male that confronted pro life ALONE at PP for two years until 01.17.25.
they used to tell me that if were to go there alone now i wouldn’t come home at all.
my boots have already been on the ground. ✊🏻🩶
the people who are the heroes in this conversation are those who support reproductive rights.
side note : part of the pro life/republican agenda is keeping child marriage legal.
It could be that now any GOP mouth breather that’s been on before doesn’t want to be accountable for their actions. They loved being on when it’s about bitching and blaming Biden. Instead they run to Fuc’s News and generate their sound bytes.
It is not “combative interviews”. It is holding truth to power. That is the fourth estates job by its very definition. And most are failing horribly. Disney/ABC is a prime example.
Thanx, ABC News, your network's feeble, sniveling recent behaviors have destroyed every last microcosm of respect I once had for your network. That is all.
So how do we reach the masses in the USA so that they may get facts based news?
NBC, CBS and NBC were at one time where most of us got the National news. It’s a sad commentary that mainstream media has succumbed to the threats of Trump and big money. Feels like the Mafia has taken over our country.
"Feels like the Mafia has taken over our country."
That is precisely what has happened since the November elections. The Trump crime cartel, led by a demented madman, is now hammering this once-great nation into the ground like a railroad spike. 😠
"Trump’s playbook here is the same as authoritarian strongman Victor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary. Orban has comprehensively attacked media outlets, filing lawsuits, and starving them of public advertising dollars unless they displayed sufficient loyalty."
Watched today for the first time since the settlement. Only because I was curious about the Canadian Ambassador. It was awful. George should have quit in protest. Now, I have no trust in him or ABC
Trump will silence and censor the press. And this settlement shows Trump will use his unlimited supply of money to sue these media outlets which is a fight they’d rather mitigate
Yet it was MY responsibility to save the country by voting..... when the democrats are MIA. I don't want ANY person to ever ask again why the democrats lost ..... ever.
Just looked at the NPR home page and there's no mention of Musk taking control of our information system. Seems this stories should be a top-of-the-page, giant-font headline? Also, NYT has a "tariffs will complicate efforts to tame inflation" header. What efforts? So glad Blue Sky exists right now.
Unfortunately the mainstream seems be taking the "we will just ride this out" attitude. Only problem is that they may find our Country systematically dismantled and nothing will be left to ride.
I mean, it’s not like any major stories were reported this week that require clarification from government officials on what it’s all about, or what, if anything, anyone is doing about it.
ABCs $15 million settlement, and Zuckerberg's $25 million settlement, are just protection money paid to the mob.
There is zero chance that either of them would have lost these baseless and embarrassing lawsuits. And little chance they would have even made it to court.
Being nice to a crocodile with a brain the size of a walnut is probably a lost cause. DJT fits in here somewhere. Be wary of stupidity and fight the ignorance.
I hope when Trump’s beautiful library is built, he puts up a sign thanking donors and on there in big letters are ABC, CBS and Facebook, for all to see.
Given that tariffs are coming that’s so baffling to not interview any member of Congress or the administration. Americans need to know what is coming for them.
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How did you become such a spineless, gutless, hypocrite?
Followed by...
If you don't believe the role of government is to help people, why did you enter government work?
Fixed it.
Acquiescing is one of the many reasons.
Goddamn mouse-livered cowards.
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What I am waiting for is someone to give a platform to those who would dispute these actions.
ABC I can give you a guest list!
They are just as bad as #CNN
WHERE were the questions today about it?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-federal-payments-system.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk4.RoF5.weoQT5wxBGIk
Stopped watching.
I was down to NBC (Today show and local) I just can't after this past year of what they did and did not report on. I might turn it on for the fluffy weekend stuff but even that. Those local nbc commercials🙄 please just sell products like almost every other nbc talk show that'd be useful
I know it’s not hard core news, but it’s where a lot of people get news and you would not know anything unusual is going on. Shameful.
At least This Week covered these topics.
They worked sooooo hard they needed a wittle west
Think back to the real news days of Huntley, Brinkley, Cronkite etc.
They did real journalism without pol interviews.
It’s just filler for news networks, so they don’t have to do as much actual news gathering and reporting.
One can cover politicians — and their statements, votes etc — without giving them 5-10 minutes to lie and spin.
Look at Maddow.
They love those juicy tax cuts and profits. They don't report the news!
i hope you find them soon.
we poor have already lived this extreme reality for decades.
we get it. ✊🏻🩶
they used to tell me that if were to go there alone now i wouldn’t come home at all.
my boots have already been on the ground. ✊🏻🩶
side note : part of the pro life/republican agenda is keeping child marriage legal.
Thanx, ABC News, your network's feeble, sniveling recent behaviors have destroyed every last microcosm of respect I once had for your network. That is all.
NBC, CBS and NBC were at one time where most of us got the National news. It’s a sad commentary that mainstream media has succumbed to the threats of Trump and big money. Feels like the Mafia has taken over our country.
That is precisely what has happened since the November elections. The Trump crime cartel, led by a demented madman, is now hammering this once-great nation into the ground like a railroad spike. 😠
so it's in character.
And there’ll be no one on the good side left to try and protect them.
There is zero chance that either of them would have lost these baseless and embarrassing lawsuits. And little chance they would have even made it to court.