"Liberal Media"? Soft on Trump, Tough on Clinton

[Synthaholic]

Time for the wingnuts to admit there is no Liberal Media, just corporate media.


Campaign Press Adopts The Trump Rules -- They're The Opposite Of The Clinton Rules

Soft On Trump, Tough On Clinton



Switching back and forth between MSNBC and CNN last Thursday night as they aired competing, hour-long interviews with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, viewers ran the risk of whiplash. The threat lingered not just because Clinton and Trump were on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but because the tone and tenor of the two events seemed dramatically different.

Here were some of the questions posed to Clinton from the MSNBC event's co-moderators, NBC's Chuck Todd and Telemundo's José Díaz-Balart:

• "What would you do to make possible that the [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival] students become permanent residents?"
• "Would you ever imagine raising the retirement age in the next 10 years?"
• "Do you foresee a time when the federal government would be able to include the undocumented [workers] in federal grants for education?"
• "Should people start paying Social Security taxes on income over $120,000?"
• "Is a presidential visit [to Cuba] a step too far? Would a President Clinton be going this quickly?"

By contrast, here were some of the questions posed to Trump from the CNN moderator, Anderson Cooper:

• "What do you eat when you roll up at a McDonald's, what does - what does Donald Trump order?"
• "What's your favorite kind of music?"
• "How many hours a night do you sleep?"
• "What kind of a parent are you?"
• "What is one thing you wish you didn't do?"

 

[BULLDOG]

Hillary is a legitimate candidate who is able to deal with the hard problems, so they asked her questions that reflect her capabilities and show what we expect from a legitimate candidate. Trump is,well, Trump. It would be useless to ask him real questions.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Can you imagine if Trump took even one trip to Epstein's Lolita Sex slave Island to spend quality time with 16 year old girls?

 

[BULLDOG]

Can you imagine if Trump took even one trip to Epstein's Lolita Sex slave Island to spend quality time with 16 year old girls?

That the best you got? More unfounded accusations that only another teabagger, such as yourself, would believe.

 

[Oldstyle]

Time for the wingnuts to admit there is no Liberal Media, just corporate media.


Campaign Press Adopts The Trump Rules -- They're The Opposite Of The Clinton Rules

Soft On Trump, Tough On Clinton



Switching back and forth between MSNBC and CNN last Thursday night as they aired competing, hour-long interviews with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, viewers ran the risk of whiplash. The threat lingered not just because Clinton and Trump were on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but because the tone and tenor of the two events seemed dramatically different.

Here were some of the questions posed to Clinton from the MSNBC event's co-moderators, NBC's Chuck Todd and Telemundo's José Díaz-Balart:

• "What would you do to make possible that the [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival] students become permanent residents?"
• "Would you ever imagine raising the retirement age in the next 10 years?"
• "Do you foresee a time when the federal government would be able to include the undocumented [workers] in federal grants for education?"
• "Should people start paying Social Security taxes on income over $120,000?"
• "Is a presidential visit [to Cuba] a step too far? Would a President Clinton be going this quickly?"

By contrast, here were some of the questions posed to Trump from the CNN moderator, Anderson Cooper:

• "What do you eat when you roll up at a McDonald's, what does - what does Donald Trump order?"
• "What's your favorite kind of music?"
• "How many hours a night do you sleep?"
• "What kind of a parent are you?"
• "What is one thing you wish you didn't do?"

Media Matters has a problem with "slanted" media coverage? That's like saying Bill Clinton has a problem with sexual harassment in the work place or Hillary Clinton has a problem with telling the truth!

The "liberal media" gives Hillary a hard time now for the same reason they gave her a hard time back in 2008...they support an even more liberal candidate than Clinton...Bernie Sanders!

 

[Pogo]

A "Liberal" media might call out Rump for denigrating Latinos as "rapists" and women as "pigs". A commercial media would just run the clip over and over to milk ratings and sell commercials.

An ideological media would denounce Rump's mockery of congenital arthrogryposis; a corporate media interested only in its own material gain would just run the clip over and over to milk ratings and sell commercials.

A media interested in pushing an agenda would immediately expose Rump's proposal to ban people based on their religion as unConstitutional; a media only interested in attracting riches unto itself would just run the clip over and over to milk ratings and sell commercials.

Golly gee-whiz, Mister Media Mogul-Who-Runs-A-Gazillion-Broadcast-Stations-Newspapers-Magazines-Movie-Production-Companies-Record-Companies-Book-Publishers-Entertainment-Venues-And-Advertising-Billboards-Under-A-Single-Megacorporate-Umbrella-Not-That-There's-Any-Conflict-Of-Interest-In-That, thank you for not saddling us with a corporate megamedia. I can't imagine where that would leave us.



Oh wait...

 

[Oldstyle]

As for their treatment of Trump? He refuses to play the game. If anyone does start asking him tough questions...he shuts them out. The media SHOULD have enough integrity to simply not report on him if he utilizes that strategy...and instead give coverage to other candidates who WILL comply with a serious vetting process but let's be honest here...the liberal media have been trying to pick a GOP candidate that they think has no chance of being elected President since this election cycle started. They LOVE Trump because they don't think he's electable...hence the fawning interviews by people like Anderson Cooper.

 

[hadit]

This old canard again? Why are we still attempting to make the case that the major media has no bias? When the vast majority of the people who report and shape the news all vote for the same political party, there's an issue. If you think the media is soft on Trump, their tone will change dramatically as soon as he gets the nomination. It's what they do.

 

[Pogo]

This old canard again? Why are we still attempting to make the case that the major media has no bias? When the vast majority of the people who report and shape the news all vote for the same political party, there's an issue.

And what issue would that be?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I would guess the media has softened up on Trump because every time they try and screw with him his numbers go up.

 

[Pogo]

I would guess the media has softened up on Trump because every time they try and screw with him his numbers go up.

That assumes "the media" actually CARES whether his numbers go up. And that in turn assumes "the media" has an ideological agenda.

I've pointed this out as long as I've been here and I'll keep repeating until it actually sinks in ---- "the media" does not have an ideology. It's commercial. Its objective is the same as any other commercial enterprise, and that is Profit. To that end it will exploit Donald Rump, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina or any other disaster it can milk. It is not the least concerned with which way the political winds blow, except to the point that it can harness those winds for self-enrichment.

Again, it comes down to this: nobody makes money from ideology. They make money from milking emotion.

That's all there is to it. No Big Media Think Tanks dressed in tinfoil hats powwowing to figure out how it can push this candidate or stifle that one. Sorry. It's simply profiteering exploitation, and that's all it is.

And you're the fuel supply.

 

[blackhawk]

Hillary has never handled the press well and always had bad relations with them and tries to avoid talking to them as much as she can so it stands to reason the press will go after her harder. Trump on the other hand loves the press and battling with them where Hillary tries to avoid press interviews as much as possible you can't get Trump to stop doing them and the media loves that type of access. If Hillary and Trump become the eventual nominees I think the odds are pretty good her coverage gets softer and his gets tougher.

 

[Oldstyle]

This old canard again? Why are we still attempting to make the case that the major media has no bias? When the vast majority of the people who report and shape the news all vote for the same political party, there's an issue. If you think the media is soft on Trump, their tone will change dramatically as soon as he gets the nomination. It's what they do.

Someone thinking the liberal media is giving Trump "soft" coverage because the media likes him so much is simply showing how naive they are! The media is doing their level best to provide a GOP nominee that Clinton or Sanders can defeat. They think that person is Donald Trump.

 

[Oldstyle]

I would guess the media has softened up on Trump because every time they try and screw with him his numbers go up.

That assumes "the media" actually CARES whether his numbers go up. And that in turn assumes "the media" has an ideological agenda.

I've pointed this out as long as I've been here and I'll keep repeating until it actually sinks in ---- "the media" does not have an ideology. It's commercial. Its objective is the same as any other commercial enterprise, and that is Profit. To that end it will exploit Donald Rump, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina or any other disaster it can milk. It is not the least concerned with which way the political winds blow, except to the point that it can harness those winds for self-enrichment.

Again, it comes down to this: nobody makes money from ideology. They make money from milking emotion.

That's all there is to it. No Big Media Think Tanks dressed in tinfoil hats powwowing to figure out how it can push this candidate or stifle that one. Sorry. It's simply profiteering exploitation, and that's all it is.

And you're the fuel supply.

I couldn't disagree more with that statement, Pogo! The reason that you have MSNBC pandering to a liberal audience and FOX pandering to a conservative one is that they DO make money telling people what they want to hear! It's become more and more about ideology and less and less about journalism.

 

[Synthaholic]

Can you imagine if Trump took even one trip to Epstein's Lolita Sex slave Island to spend quality time with 16 year old girls?

Still trying to criminalize sex, Frank?

 

[Synthaholic]

Hillary has never handled the press well and always had bad relations with them and tries to avoid talking to them as much as she can so it stands to reason the press will go after her harder.

I agree. She was never willing to go on Hardball, or Maddow, before she needed to. She has totally snubbed outlets and hosts who are naturally supportive of her. (It's something that bothers me about Obama, also). OTOH, Sanders did "Fridays With Bernie" on the Thom Hartmann radio talk show for the past few years, answering any call about any subject, just being Bernie.

 

[Synthaholic]

This old canard again? Why are we still attempting to make the case that the major media has no bias? When the vast majority of the people who report and shape the news all vote for the same political party, there's an issue. If you think the media is soft on Trump, their tone will change dramatically as soon as he gets the nomination. It's what they do.

Someone thinking the liberal media is giving Trump "soft" coverage because the media likes him so much is simply showing how naive they are! The media is doing their level best to provide a GOP nominee that Clinton or Sanders can defeat. They think that person is Donald Trump.

Who is being ignored?

And why do you have such low regard for your fellow conservative voters? Are they all so easily fooled by Chris Matthews?

 

[Oldstyle]

This old canard again? Why are we still attempting to make the case that the major media has no bias? When the vast majority of the people who report and shape the news all vote for the same political party, there's an issue. If you think the media is soft on Trump, their tone will change dramatically as soon as he gets the nomination. It's what they do.

Someone thinking the liberal media is giving Trump "soft" coverage because the media likes him so much is simply showing how naive they are! The media is doing their level best to provide a GOP nominee that Clinton or Sanders can defeat. They think that person is Donald Trump.

Who is being ignored?

And why do you have such low regard for your fellow conservative voters? Are they all so easily fooled by Chris Matthews?

Did you miss the rather wry comment by Jeb Bush that he could drop his drawers and moon the press and still not get noticed? Donald Trump is getting the lion's share of media coverage and candidates like Bush and Kasich got next to none. If the people don't hear what you're saying...no matter how much sense it makes...then you don't have a prayer of winning an election.

As for Chris Matthews? Does anyone pay attention to that blathering idiot at this point?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The 'liberal media,' one of the right's more ridiculous lies and myths.

'The media' do not function as a single entity guided by one ideology or goal, save that of making money.

 

[Oldstyle]

The 'liberal media,' one of the right's more ridiculous lies and myths.

'The media' do not function as a single entity guided by one ideology or goal, save that of making money.

Yet studies have shown that the "mainstream" media is overwhelmingly liberal...which begs the question...why are you on the far left so determined to pretend that isn't the case?